Poetry. "Marjorie Becker's second collection of poems, PIANO GLASS/GLASS PIANO, is a truly remarkable achievement. Novelistic in its narrative conception and operatic in its dramatic sweep, this sequence of poems charts the oscillations of identity and sexuality, following the story of its speaker/narrator, Marnie, who is first seamstress then shopkeeper, and whore then Madam. Unspoken racial anxiety, the construction of Southern Jewish identity, the potential transformation of the self by use of the body--all of these are ...
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Poetry. "Marjorie Becker's second collection of poems, PIANO GLASS/GLASS PIANO, is a truly remarkable achievement. Novelistic in its narrative conception and operatic in its dramatic sweep, this sequence of poems charts the oscillations of identity and sexuality, following the story of its speaker/narrator, Marnie, who is first seamstress then shopkeeper, and whore then Madam. Unspoken racial anxiety, the construction of Southern Jewish identity, the potential transformation of the self by use of the body--all of these are at stake and under discussion in Marnie's brilliantly interwoven stories.... Marnie is an extraordinary character, one of the most provocative and compelling female speakers in recent fiction or poetry.... Though the velvet sexual hammers within keep threatening to shatter the glass piano that is Marnie, the power of her endurance is that she remains held to its music, and to the songs of her own body and her own defiant dreams"--David St. John.
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