Untam'd Wing: Riffs on Romantic Poetry

Author:   Jeffrey C. Robinson ,  Anne Waldman
Publisher:   Station Hill Press,U.S.
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781581771183


Pages:   124
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Our Price $39.47 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Untam'd Wing: Riffs on Romantic Poetry


Add your own review!

Overview

The jazz term ""riff"" is short for ""riffle""-""make rough."" In UNTAM'D WING: RIFFS ON ROMANTIC POETRY, scholar/poet Jeffrey Robinson sets out much like a jazz musician to renew a great body of work (say, Miles Davis on George Gershwin)-""to recast,"" as he says in the Prefatory Note, ""what have become monuments, with all the inertness of passive appreciation that monumentality encourages, into living forms."" If he ""roughs up"" some of our long-time favorites, it's not to revise, and certainly not to improve, but on the contrary to reveal a timeless dimension that is of the very nature of the Romantic: ""I would define a 'romantic' poem, of whatever vintage, as one that invites its own renewal in every present."" With all the boldness and subtle care of the poets he celebrates, Robinson stakes his ""life-long involvement as reader, teacher, and scholar/critic of Romantic poetry"" on an equally committed ""absorption and belief in the discoveries of modern and contemporary experimental poetry."" Like a true marriage it lays bare both parties. ""UNTAM'D WING is a heady conglomeration of poetic intensities and re-visionings, of the Romantic mother lode. Only a poet deeply embedded in and enthralled by this realm could take wild liberties and shape them into a contemporary volume of such curious and inventive range. Jeffrey Robinson is a scholar and has lived inside the Romantic body for decades, and precisely because of this his imagination is highly attuned to further Romantic nuance...He sheds bright light on meaning and message. He is the scientist/artist finally breaking free of shackles."" -Anne Waldman, from the foreword

Full Product Details

Author:   Jeffrey C. Robinson ,  Anne Waldman
Publisher:   Station Hill Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Station Hill Press,U.S.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 0.20cm , Height: 15.20cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.191kg
ISBN:  

9781581771183


ISBN 10:   1581771185
Pages:   124
Publication Date:   01 December 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Robinson has published widely in Romantic Studies. He is co-editor, along with Jerome Rothenberg, of Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three: The University of California Book of Romantic and Post-Romantic Poetry. A winner of Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, he has taught at the University of Colorado in Boulder since 1971.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

ARG20253

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List