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Giacometti's Dog.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Becker, Robin
- Series:
- Pitt poetry.
- Pitt Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- Celebratory or eligiac, these poems record the author's "two-headed journey" to root herself - geographically and emotionally - in the world. Becker's poems are from remote and familiar outposts: the watery evanescence of Venice contrasts with the desert of the American Southwest; we lean with her over the rim of a canyon or stand back to study a Giacometti sculpture. From such settings arise poems on the death of a sibling, the consoling power of painting and sculpture; others celebrate the erotic and the capacity of the female body for pleasure and pain.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- I
- The Problem of Magnification
- Living in the Barn
- The Hand-Carved Chairs
- The Accident
- Bodies We Will Never Know
- The Lover of Fruit Trees
- My Father's Heart
- In Pompano Beach, Florida
- Osteoporosis
- Philadelphia,1955
- The Return
- Like Breath at Your Ear
- The Children's Concert
- The Compassionate Friend
- Sadness in Spring
- Selective Memory
- II
- The Round Barn
- Tantric Pictures
- The Children of Siran Darda
- The Taj Express
- On Vashon
- Good Boy
- Riding Lesson
- Still Life
- Incarnate
- Letter from Your Father
- The First Summer of the Word Processor
- Prelude
- Floating Farm
- Susan Longmire: The 1891 Ascent of Mt. Rainier
- Hiking Gold Hill Ridge
- The Story I Like to Tell
- III
- Jazz Festival, France
- Giacometti's Dog
- Conversations in July
- Chagall
- Matisse
- The White Place
- Decoupage
- A Marriage
- Tether
- Fable
- Rome of the Imagination
- Grief
- Built on Water
- The Bath
- Birch Trees
- The Subject of Our Lives.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- ISBN:
- 9780822991717
- 0822991713
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