EAN: 9780143136804

INFORMATION DESK - ROBYN SCHIFF KARTONIERT (TB)

From an acclaimed and wildly imaginative poet  a book-length poem set in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art that is a work of art history and a coming-of-age story. 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--

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