Ornate Persona
Stevens, Jeanine
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...
