| Untam'd Wing: Riffs on Romantic Poetry Contributor(s): Robinson, Jeffrey C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1581771185 ISBN-13: 9781581771183 Publisher: Station Hill Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2010033193 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.44 lbs) 124 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |