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Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, The New Republic, A Public Space, Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of the poetry collections Worth and Revolver, which was a finalist for a 2008 PEN award. [1]
Aug 15, 2023 · Schiff has composed a fascinating poetic study of the ways that art relates to its audience.” —Publishers Weekly. “Ecstatic, propulsive, and novelistic, Robyn Schiff’s Information Desk is a tour-de-force epic on the intricate structures of knowledge, aesthetics, and labor.
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- Robyn Schiff
Robyn Schiff. Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature; Director of the Program in Creative Writing. rschiff@uchicago.edu. Taft 301. Research Interests: Ekphrastic Poetry; Making and Breaking Form; The Long Poem; Female Poets; Gothic Poetry; Poetry Playground.
- How long did it take you to write Information Desk? It took me about twenty years notto write it, and then another six to sit down and do it.
- What was the most challenging thing about writing the book? Limiting and defining the scope. Information Desktakes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which holds over a million objects created over a span of about five thousand years.
- Where, when, and how often do you write? When I’m really writing, deep in a poem, I do so seated at my desk—as often as I can for as many hours in a row as possible, at multiple intervals around the clock.
- What are you reading right now? I was reading Henry James’s novel Roderick Hudson but had to return it to the library in a different country before I finished it, so I picked up Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day.
Mar 14, 2016 · “A Woman of Property” (Penguin Poets), Robyn Schiff’s third volume of poetry, is a study of the imagination’s darker powers and their daily, domestic insurrections. American...
- Dan Chiasson
with the rings a fly circling the bullet wound. makes in air. Focus my gaze; I. see like a fly whose vision is more like. several interlocking rings left by a tea-. cup on a book but the cake. was six feet high and how could I resist. pistols winding tier up-. on tier up the icing reverberating in.
Aug 16, 2023 · once approached me. there and said, “I was on your flight last week! You were on my plane!”. ___________________________. From Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff. Copyright © 2023. Published by Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
