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Domain of perfect affection
By Becker, Robin
- ISBN
- 978-0-82295-931-1
- Publisher
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2006
"Worry calcifies/my ears against music," confides Becker (Giacometti's Dog ) in a poem called "Against Pleasure," and throughout her latest work she acknowledges that life dishes out pain and joy in equal measure; it's our job to sort them out. Early poems in the collection find Becker wrestling with "the Mosaic injunction against/graven image" in a culture saturated with the C...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
