INFORMATION DESK

INFORMATION DESKFrom the press: Named a 2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist and a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick Robyn Schiffs fourth collection is an ambitious book length poem in three parts set at The Metropolitan Museum of Arts 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

Poets and artists have claimed to understand the language of birds and flowers

while the final section

an image that morphs into a film

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Both an elegy for a dear friend and a search for signs of renewal

including the 2001 Premio Rómulo Gallegos and the prestigious Prix Médicis for the best foreign novel in France

the intergenerational writers assembled here imagine an altogether overturned world in poems that pursue the particular and multiple trans relationships to desire

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme with Fawz Kabra

and  as a moral contribution it remains incomparable

beyond the clichés of popular culture and art history

From the press: Poems that blur the boundaries of language and species

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