{"product_id":"ornate-persona-9781957221038","title":"Ornate Persona","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clare Songbirds Publishing House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781957221038\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.07d","brand":"Jeanine Stevens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42325097939125,"sku":"9781957221038","price":8.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_31b36057-e45a-414f-ad1b-c848a55b1686.jpg?v=1660015905","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ornate-persona-9781957221038","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}