Worth: Poems by Robyn Schiff (Kuhl House Poets) - Softcover

Schiff, Robyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877458200 ISBN 13: 9780877458203

Publisher: University of Iowa Press, 2002

Synopsis

Robyn Schiff's poems enquire about making, buying, selling and stealing in the material world, the natural landscape and the human soul. Schiff moves from Cartier and Tiffany to the Shedd Aquarium, from Marie Antoinette to the Civil War and from Mary Pickford to Marilyn Monroe.

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Review

"Robyn Schiff's Worth restores originality to its proper and meaningful function: this is a book of new beginnings, of self-creations and re-creations. These poems offer pleasure and disturbance in equal measure and at all times; they are as dazzlingly constructed as a Chanel gown and as breathless as a hovering finch, both of which are among the elements of Schiff's densely populated imagination. This work manages to strike me as unlike anything I've seen before, while feeling perfectly inevitable. Worth is a marvel."

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877458200
• ISBN 13: 9780877458203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88