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Information Desk: An Epic : By, Robyn Schiff
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- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Features
- Braille
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- Collector's Edition, Limited Edition
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9780143136804
- Book Title
- Information Desk : an Epic
- Book Series
- Penguin Poets Ser.
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- Women Authors, General, American / General
- Item Weight
- 6.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143136801
ISBN-13
9780143136804
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18058367209
Product Key Features
Book Title
Information Desk : an Epic
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, General, American / General
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Poetry
Book Series
Penguin Poets Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
6.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-059943
Reviews
Praise for Information Desk : "There is quiet humor, alongside a whiff of defiance, in Information Desk 's subtitle: 'An Epic.' An epic poem, of course, calls to mind the Greeks, the Romans, all those illustrious examples-- The Iliad , The Odyssey , The Aeneid , etc. The journey portrayed in Information Desk may initially appear to be more inward, but it's no less transformative . . . Schiff turns the oft-forgotten worker behind the counter into an opportunity to ask deeper questions about the historical relationship between creativity and economics . . . Who says that the life of the woman behind the counter is not equally adventurous as an epic hero's?" -- Poetry Foundation "Schiff's attention to class and cultural formation [...] is part of a welcome return of class-based discourses to the world of American poetry . . . ranging in intellect, gorgeously slow in its development of thought and feeling . . . [ Information Desk ] is so faithful to itself, so admirably assured in how it presents us its information." -- Preposition Magazine "Ecstatic, propulsive, and novelistic, Robyn Schiff's Information Desk is a tour-de-force epic on the intricate structures of knowledge, aesthetics, and labor. Astonishingly sibylline with her syllabic constraints, Schiff is one of our most formally brilliant poets writing in American letters today." --Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings, Advance praise for Information Desk : "Ecstatic, propulsive, and novelistic, Robyn Schiff's Information Desk is a tour-de-force epic on the intricate structures of knowledge, aesthetics, and labor. Astonishingly sibylline with her syllabic constraints, Schiff is one of our most formally brilliant poets writing in American letters today." --Cathy Park Hong, author of Minor Feelings
Synopsis
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Among the year's highlights . . . groundbreaking, epic . . . Like visitors exiting the Met's galleries, readers will emerge from Information Desk bedazzled by the transformative horizons of art." -- Washington Post "An effluvial rush of memory, desire, data, and metaphor . . . It's bracing to encounter a mind so voracious, so unapologetic in its intelligence." -- New York Review of Books A book-length poem set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from a writer whose work offers "something few poets ever discover: a vision of the whole world" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker ) Robyn Schiff's fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's information desk, where Schiff long ago held a staff position. Elaborately mapping an interconnected route in and out of the museum through history, material, and memory, Information Desk: An Epic takes us on an anguished soul-quest and ecstatic intellectual query to confront the violent forces that inform the museum's encyclopedic collection and the spiritual powers of art. Novelistic in its sweep, frantically informative, and deeply intimate in its private recollections, Information Desk: An Epic wayfares with riveting lyric intensity through an epic array of topics and concerns, including illusion, deception, self-deception, complicity, lecherous coworkers, the composition of pigment, the scattering of seeds, ideas, and capital, and insect infestations spreading within artwork. Along the way, Schiff pauses to invoke three terrifying muses--parasitic wasps--in desperate awe of their powers of precision and generative energy. Information Desk: An Epic undertakes a hemorrhaging ekphrastic journey through artifice and the natural world., New York Times Book Review Edtitors' Choice "Among the year's highlights . . . groundbreaking, epic . . . Like visitors exiting the Met's galleries, readers will emerge from Information Desk bedazzled by the transformative horizons of art." -- Washington Post " An effluvial rush of memory, desire, data, and metaphor . . . It's bracing to encounter a mind so voracious, so unapologetic in its intelligence. " -- New York Review of Books A book-length poem set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from a writer whose work offers "something few poets ever discover: a vision of the whole world" (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker ) Robyn Schiff's fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's information desk, where Schiff long ago held a staff position. Elaborately mapping an interconnected route in and out of the museum through history, material, and memory, Information Desk: An Epic takes us on an anguished soul-quest and ecstatic intellectual query to confront the violent forces that inform the museum's encyclopedic collection and the spiritual powers of art. Novelistic in its sweep, frantically informative, and deeply intimate in its private recollections, Information Desk: An Epic wayfares with riveting lyric intensity through an epic array of topics and concerns, including illusion, deception, self-deception, complicity, lecherous coworkers, the composition of pigment, the scattering of seeds, ideas, and capital, and insect infestations spreading within artwork. Along the way, Schiff pauses to invoke three terrifying muses--parasitic wasps--in desperate awe of their powers of precision and generative energy. Information Desk: An Epic undertakes a hemorrhaging ekphrastic journey through artifice and the natural world.
LC Classification Number
PS3619.C365I54 2023
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