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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.Becker, Robin is the author of 'Giacometti's Dog (Pitt Poetry Series)' with ISBN 9780822936367 and ISBN 0822936364.
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