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.
- ISBN10 0822936364
- ISBN13 9780822936367
- Publish Date 1 June 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 September 2002
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 72
- Language English