Giacometti's Dog (Pitt Poetry Series)

By Robin Becker

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822936364
• ISBN13: 9780822936367
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 5.8"