Still life with two dead peacocks and a girl : poems /
This volume of poetry takes its title from Rembrandt's painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence and the viewer's troubled gaze. The collection shatters the notion of a still life and presents the painting in pieces. With invention and irreverence, the poems escape their gilded frame...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Graywolf Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | This volume of poetry takes its title from Rembrandt's painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence and the viewer's troubled gaze. The collection shatters the notion of a still life and presents the painting in pieces. With invention and irreverence, the poems escape their gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class and luxury. Details from this gallery of lives in shards hide more than they reveal, like fragmented memories, waiting until they are reassembled into a whole. |
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| Physical Description: | 108 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781555978068 1555978061 |