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Robyn Schiff Revolver (Paperback) Kuhl House Poets (UK IMPORT)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Revolver
- Publication Name
- Revolver
- Title
- Revolver
- Contributor
- Mark Levine (Series edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781587296956
- ISBN
- 9781587296956
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 31/10/2008
- Release Year
- 2008
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 5 oz
- Series
- Kuhl House Poets
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Number of Pages
- 84 Pages
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As restless, reckless, and precise as the Colt revolver for which it is named, Robyn Schiff s "Revolver " repeats fire without reloading as it reckons with the array of foreboding objects displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the traces of their ghosts one hundred years later. A dirge on the Singer Sewing Machine, an exuberant and unnerving rumination on multipurpose campaign furniture, and a breathless account of Ralph Lauren s silver Porsche 550 Spyder are among the collection s exhilarating corporate histories, urgent fantasias, and agonizing love poems. The long, lavish, and utterly unpredictable sentences that Schiff has assembled contort as much to discover what can t be contained as what can. This is a book of extremes relentlessly contemporary in scope. And like the eighty-blade sportsman s knife also described here, "Revolver" keeps opening and reopening to the daunting possibilities of transformation Splayed it is a bouquet of all the ways a point mutates. "from" Silverware by J. A. Henckels Let me beas streamlined as my knife when I say this.As cold as my three-pronged fork thatcools the meat even as it steadies it.A pettiness in me was honedin this cutlers town, later bombed, in which Adolf Eichmann, who was born therealongside my wedding pattern, could hearthe constant sharpening of kniveslike some children hear the corn in their hometownstalking to them through the wind.The horizon is just the score they breathe throughlike a box of chickensbreathing through a slit."
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Publisher
University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10
1587296950
ISBN-13
9781587296956
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66616977
Product Key Features
Book Title
Revolver
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
84 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
5 oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3619.C365r48 2008
Reviews
"Wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive, stitched to perfection by a formal genius that recalls the quirkily perfect forms (and tones) of Marianne Moore, Revolver is a perpetual motion machine in which time, history, matter, and a profound tenderness for the made world knot, rush, pleat, unfurl...What an embroidery, what a flawless understanding of gravity. There is not a poem in this collection that does not amaze. As with Worth -and worthy of being its successor-this is a work of profound daring, written by a spirit deeply aware of the ultimate cost of beauty, and the endless human thirst for, and dependence upon, surfaces-historical, lyric, material, and emotional."-Jorie Graham, "Wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive, stitched to perfection by a formal genius that recalls the quirkily perfect forms (and tones) of Marianne Moore,Revolveris a perpetual motion machine in which time, history, matter, and a profound tenderness for the made world knot, rush, pleat, unfurl...What an embroidery, what a flawless understanding of gravity. There is not a poem in this collection that does not amaze. As withWorth-and worthy of being its successor-this is a work of profound daring, written by a spirit deeply aware of the ultimate cost of beauty, and the endless human thirst for, and dependence upon, surfaces-historical, lyric, material, and emotional."-Jorie Graham "I love that it is impossible to predict the paths of the poems inRevolver. Schiff's footwork is utterly unfamiliar in its combinations-curtsey, kick, pirouette. Rabbit hole, revolving door, detour. Facts (from the tiny sugar pistols on Elizabeth Colt's cake to the Chinese name for Asian Longhorned Beetles) have never been so faceted, so fantastic. And these details are matched-if not surpassed-by a ferocity of feeling, '…who would not kiss the head of a swan / just to try to memorize / the softness of something wild?'-Matthea Harvey, "Wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive, stitched to perfection by a formal genius that recalls the quirkily perfect forms (and tones) of Marianne Moore, Revolver is a perpetual motion machine in which time, history, matter, and a profound tenderness for the made world knot, rush, pleat, unfurl...What an embroidery, what a flawless understanding of gravity. There is not a poem in this collection that does not amaze. As with Worth -and worthy of being its successor-this is a work of profound daring, written by a spirit deeply aware of the ultimate cost of beauty, and the endless human thirst for, and dependence upon, surfaces-historical, lyric, material, and emotional."-Jorie Graham "I love that it is impossible to predict the paths of the poems in Revolver . Schiff's footwork is utterly unfamiliar in its combinations-curtsey, kick, pirouette. Rabbit hole, revolving door, detour. Facts (from the tiny sugar pistols on Elizabeth Colt's cake to the Chinese name for Asian Longhorned Beetles) have never been so faceted, so fantastic. And these details are matched-if not surpassed-by a ferocity of feeling, '…who would not kiss the head of a swan / just to try to memorize / the softness of something wild?'-Matthea Harvey, "Wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive, stitched to perfection by a formal genius that recalls the quirkily perfect forms (and tones) of Marianne Moore, Revolver is a perpetual motion machine in which time, history, matter, and a profound tenderness for the made world knot, rush, pleat, unfurl...What an embroidery, what a flawless understanding of gravity. There is not a poem in this collection that does not amaze. As with Worth --and worthy of being its successor--this is a work of profound daring, written by a spirit deeply aware of the ultimate cost of beauty, and the endless human thirst for, and dependence upon, surfaces--historical, lyric, material, and emotional."--Jorie Graham
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2008-009633
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Series
Kuhl House Poets Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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