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020 $a9781555978068 (pbk.) :$cNT$560
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050 00$aPS3619.E94$bA6 2018
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100 1 $aSeuss, Diane.
245 10$aStill life with two dead peacocks and a girl :$bpoems /$cDiane Seuss.
246 3 $aStill life with 2 dead peacocks and a girl.
260 $aMinneapolis, Minnesota :$bGraywolf Press,$c[2018].
300 $a108 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aFirst Graywolf Printing.
505 00$tI have lived my whole life in a painting called Paradise --$tGirl in a picture frame --$tMemory fed me until it didn't --$tStill life with self-portrait --$tYoung hare --$tStill life with turkey --$tEden: an outline -- Self-portrait: my legs --$tSelf-portrait with the ashes of my baby blanket --$tSelf-portrait with my dead looming behind me --$tSelf-portrait with double helix --$tSelf-portrait with levitation --$tStill life with two dead peacocks and a girl --$tThe knight's dream --$tQuince, cabbage, melon, and cucumber --$tThe last still life: the head of Medusa --$tWalmart parking lot --$tAmerican still lifes (the Gothic sublime in 102 syllables) --$tSentences --$tHindenburg --$tThere's some I just won't let die --$tBowl --$tAmerican run-on sentences --$tI look at my face in a red mylar balloon tied to a mailbox --$tStateline pastoral --$tThe hand has dropped the fruit and it's painted where it falls --$tI look up from my book and out at the world through reading glasses --$tSilence is so accurate, Rothko wrote --$tIt seems at times that silence --$tStill life with dictator --$tThe heroic penetrates the quotidian --$tSilence again --$tMemento mori --$tSelf-portrait with herbarium --$tSelf-portrait with Emily Dickinson (Rebirth of mourning) --$tSelf-portrait with Sylvia Plath's braid --$tSelf-portrait with Janis's shoe when she sang "Ball and chain" at Monterey Pop, 1967 --$tSelf-portrait with Freddie M (invention of thunder) --$tSelf-portrait with Amy (creation myth) --$tSelf-portrait as mouthpiece of an anonymous benefactor --$tTwo floor mosaics --$tPassover lamb --$tWhat could be more beautiful than Fede Galizia's cherries? --$tWoman looking at a table --$tI climbed out of the painting called Paradise.
520 $aThis volume of poetry takes its title from Rembrandt's painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer's troubled gaze. The collection shatters the notion of a still life, and presents the painting in pieces. With invention and irreverence, the poems escape their gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury. Details from this gallery of lives in shards hide more than they reveal, like fragmented memories, waiting until they are reassembled into a whole.
650 0$aStill-life in art$vPoetry.
650 0$aEkphrasis.
650 0$aAuthors and artists$vPoetry.
650 0$aPainting$xThemes, motives$vPoetry.