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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Still life with two dead peacocks and a girl
    sub title: poems
  title info:
    title: Poems. Selections
  name:
    name part: Seuss, Diane
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 108 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: I have lived my whole life in a painting called Paradise -- Girl in a picture frame -- Memory fed me until it didn't -- Still life with self-portrait -- Young hare -- Still life with turkey -- Eden: an outline -- Self-portrait: my legs -- Self-portrait with the ashes of my baby blanket -- Self-portrait with my dead looming behind me -- Self-portrait with double helix -- Self-portrait with levitation -- Still life with two dead peacocks and a girl -- The knight's dream -- Quince, cabbage, melon, and cucumber -- The last still life: the head of Medusa -- Walmart parking lot -- American still lifes (the Gothic sublime in 102 syllables) -- Sentences -- Hindenburg -- There's some I just won't let die -- Bowl -- American run-on sentences -- I look at my face in a red mylar balloon tied to a mailbox -- Stateline pastoral -- The hand has dropped the fruit and it's painted where it falls -- I look up from my book and out at the world through reading glasses -- Silence is so accurate, Rothko wrote -- It seems at times that silence -- Still life with dictator -- The heroic penetrates the quotidian -- Silence again -- Memento mori -- Self-portrait with herbarium -- Self-portrait with Emily Dickinson (Rebirth of mourning) -- Self-portrait with Sylvia Plath's braid -- Self-portrait with Janis's shoe when she sang "Ball and chain" at Monterey Pop, 1967 -- Self-portrait with Freddie M (invention of thunder) -- Self-portrait with Amy (creation myth) -- Self-portrait as mouthpiece of an anonymous benefactor -- Two floor mosaics -- Passover lamb -- What could be more beautiful than Fede Galizia's cherries? -- Woman looking at a table -- I climbed out of the painting called Paradise.
  note: Diane Seuss.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Poetry browsing collection : gift of Eleanor Weinbaum family.
  subject:
    topic: Still-life in art
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Ekphrasis
  subject:
    topic: Authors and artists
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Painting
    topic: Themes, motives
    genre: Poetry
  classification: PS3619.E94 A6 2018
  classification: 811.6
  identifier: 9781555978068
  identifier: 1555978061
  identifier: 2017953321
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170825
    record change date: 20190718162234.0
    record identifier: in00004057287