{"product_id":"ornate-persona-paperback-1","title":"Ornate Persona - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeanine Stevens\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving dramatically inward from her immense geographic and forensic terrain-Jeanine Stevens investigates Modernist dance, film, painting, collage, masquerade, and psychology in \u003cem\u003eOrnate Persona.\u003c\/em\u003e 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?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStevens' power to captivate guides us from a Joseph Cornell box to familiar 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-century masterworks like the film \u003cem\u003eBlack Orpheus\u003c\/em\u003e, then to the mysterious series of mandalas created by Carl Jung's patient, Miss X. Stevens' poetry keeps us reading, thinking, and feeling. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Tom Goff, author \u003cem\u003eTwelve-Tone Row: Music in Words.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 34\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.07 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47579701444829,"sku":"9781957221038","price":12.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/d0wzZ3IrdDkwV2thMHc0Sjh1RUlXQT09_deeab73c-9772-48af-830c-8cea661bdb5e.webp?v=1773532602","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/ornate-persona-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}