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...
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...
A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A new book from a poet whose work is "wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive" (Jorie Graham) Located in a menacing, gothic landscape, the poems that comprise A Woman of Property draw formal and imaginative boundaries against boundless mortal threat, but as all borders are vulnerable, this ominous collection ultimately stages an urgent and deeply imperiled boundary dispute where haunting, illusion, the presence of the past, and disembodied voices only further unsettle questions of material and spiritual...
A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A new book from a poet whose work is "wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive" (J...
