LEADER 03198nam 2200553 450 001 9910789371203321 005 20230828200139.0 010 $a0-8229-9115-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000094491 035 $a(EBL)2045585 035 $a(OCoLC)607767044 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001184969 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11702070 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001184969 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11198672 035 $a(PQKB)10497018 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2045585 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2045585 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10852669 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL586650 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000094491 100 $a20070403h20062006 uy| p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDomain of perfect affection /$fRobin Becker 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$d[2006] 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (89 p.) 225 1 $aPitt poetry series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8229-5931-3 327 $a""Contents""; ""Part I""; ""The New Egypt""; ""Holy Card""; ""Intersex""; ""The Poconos""; ""Manifest Destinies""; ""August""; ""Man of the Year""; ""Against Pleasure""; ""A Pasture of My Palm""; ""Sound View""; ""Salon""; ""Lament of the Mangle""; ""The Drawer""; ""The Dome Fire""; ""The Architect of Happiness""; ""After the Snowstorm, the Bay""; ""Borderline""; ""Part II""; ""Angel Supporting St. Sebastian""; ""Soot and Spit""; ""Qualities Boys Like Best in Girls""; ""Simple Dark""; ""Orienteer: The Childhood Drawings of William Steeple Davis, 1884a???1961""; ""Subject / Matter"" 327 $a""The Miniaturists""""Great Sleeps I Have Known""; ""Summera???s Tale""; ""The Dogs of Santorini""; ""Head of an Old Man""; ""Description""; ""Part III""; ""Rain""; ""Mah-Jongg Fantasia""; ""Mail Order""; ""Now""; ""Old Dog""; ""Island of Daily Life""; ""Head of an Angel""; ""Cohort""; ""The Outside Agitator""; ""Autumn Measure""; ""Lodging""; ""Late Butch-Femme""; ""Birds of Prey""; ""OK, Tucker""; ""On Friendship""; ""With Two Camels and One Donkey""; ""The Wild Heart""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments"" 330 $aIn Domain of Perfect Affection, Robin Becker explores the conditions under which we experience and resist pleasure: in beauty salon, summer camp, beach, backyard, or museum; New York or New Mexico. "The Mosaic injunction against / the graven image" inspires meditations on drawings by Du?rer, Evans, Klee, Marin, and del Sarto. To the consolations of art and human intimacy, Becker brings playfulness-"Worry stole the kayaks and soured the milk"-suffused with self-knowledge: "Worry wraps her long legs / around me, promises to be mine forever." In "The New Egypt," the narrator mines her family's leg 410 0$aPitt poetry series. 606 $aPoetry 615 0$aPoetry. 676 $a811/.54 700 $aBecker$b Robin$f1951-$01095003 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789371203321 996 $aDomain of perfect affection$93821545 997 $aUNINA