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SUMMARY:MoSt Poetry Book Club - Information Desk by Robyn Schiff
DESCRIPTION:MoSt Poetry Book Club meets at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday\, February 17\, 2024 at BakeShop\, 11th Street in downtown Modesto to discuss Information Desk by Robyn Schiff. You can pick up a copy of the book at the Stanislaus County Library’s Modesto Branch. Here’s what the publisher\, Penguin Random House\, has to say: \n\n\n\nABOUT INFORMATION DESK\nNew York Times Book Review Edtitors’ Choice \n“Among the year’s highlights . . . groundbreaking\, epic . . . Like visitors exiting the Met’s galleries\, readers will emerge from Information Desk bedazzled by the transformative horizons of art.” —Washington Post \n“An effluvial rush of memory\, desire\, data\, and metaphor . . . It’s bracing to encounter a mind so voracious\, so unapologetic in its intelligence.” —New York Review of Books \nA book-length poem set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, from a writer whose work offers “something few poets ever discover: a vision of the whole world” (Dan Chiasson\, The New Yorker) \nRobyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s information desk\, where Schiff long ago held a staff position. Elaborately mapping an interconnected route in and out of the museum through history\, material\, and memory\, Information Desk: An Epic takes us on an anguished soul-quest and ecstatic intellectual query to confront the violent forces that inform the museum’s encyclopedic collection and the spiritual powers of art. \nNovelistic in its sweep\, frantically informative\, and deeply intimate in its private recollections\, Information Desk: An Epic wayfares with riveting lyric intensity through an epic array of topics and concerns\, including illusion\, deception\, self-deception\, complicity\, lecherous coworkers\, the composition of pigment\, the scattering of seeds\, ideas\, and capital\, and insect infestations spreading within artwork. Along the way\, Schiff pauses to invoke three terrifying muses—parasitic wasps—in desperate awe of their powers of precision and generative energy. Information Desk: An Epic undertakes a hemorrhaging ekphrastic journey through artifice and the natural world.
URL:https://www.mostpoetry.org/event/most-poetry-book-club-information-desk-by-robyn-schiff/
LOCATION:BakeShop\, 940 Eleventh Street\, Modesto\, CA\, 95354\, United States
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