In "Domain of Perfect Affection, "Robin Becker explores the conditions under which we experience and resist pleasure: in beauty salon, summer camp, beach, backyard, or museum; New York or New Mexico. The Mosaic injunction against / the graven image inspires meditations on drawings by Durer, Evans, Klee, Marin, and del Sarto. To the consolations of art and human intimacy, Becker brings playfulness Worry stole the kayaks and soured the milk suffused with self-knowledge: Worry wraps her long legs / around me, promises to be mine forever. In The New Egypt, the narrator mines her family s legacy:...