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Ornate Persona

Ornate Persona

Stevens, Jeanine

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1957221038
ISBN13: 9781957221038
Publisher: Clare Songbirds Publishing House
Published: Jun 17 2022
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English


Moving dramatically inward from her immense geographic and forensic terrain-Jeanine Stevens investigates Modernist dance, film, painting, collage, masquerade, and psychology in Ornate Persona. She distills her gifts as a lyric anthropologist in this, her most introspective collection thus far. We sense that she's investigating her own psyche, even while handling such themes as a Nijinsky ballet. Her associative dance leads us fluidly from poem to poem, as she empathizes with the gifted, ill-fated Tanaquil Le Clercq, celebrated dancer and muse to George Balanchine: it is the ballet Afternoon of a Faun which unites Nijinsky and Tanaquil across the decades in Stevens' mind. And we become one body with Nijinsky himself, admiring our own sinew. My Egyptian eyes, lacquered hair / body taped / like a character doll. Was it a dream feathering down my neck / or just thoughts, leaf points growing / from the green felt skullcap?

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