Still life with oysters and lemon /
From Mark Doty, one of our finest poets, a delicate and sensual literary essay. Part memoir, part art history, part meditation, this hybrid volume uses the great Dutch still life paintings of the seventeenth century as a departure point for an examination of questions about our relationships with th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2001]
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| Summary: | From Mark Doty, one of our finest poets, a delicate and sensual literary essay. Part memoir, part art history, part meditation, this hybrid volume uses the great Dutch still life paintings of the seventeenth century as a departure point for an examination of questions about our relationships with things, how we invest them with human store, how they hold feeling and hope and history within them.--From publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 70 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 71). |
| ISBN: | 0807066087 9780807066089 9780807066096 0807066095 |