The Untested Hand - Softcover

Robbins, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979393477 ISBN 13: 9780979393471

Verlag: Backwaters Press, 2008

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Richard Robbins' The Untested Hand is the kind of book in which birds at a window feeder are seen as "changing all the indoor lives to sky." That is to say, this collection of poems investigates, celebrates, and practices transformation, particularly that of the quotidian into the marvelous, as if any day were the first. In "The Answering Machine," for example, the eponymous device, which a lesser poet would treat with smug jokiness, here serves to carry an astonishing weight of pathos, a poetic achievement compounded by expressiveness simultaneously naked and eloquent. In fact, the language throughout the book is consistently arresting, never glib; Robbins seems incapable of a vulgar gesture. When he says of a cliff wall painted by aboriginals, "the paint made our blood move again," he could be speaking of the effects of his own poems. Indeed, his work, which ranges widely through time and space, resonates with heroic landscapes and those who have peopled them: the American West figures here as both literal place and myth. Such scale tests a writer, and Robbins matches it with a compelling voice at times seemingly less personal than prophetic, that of one who holds together Blakean contraries--those "indoor lives" both disappearing and expanding--by the sheer strength of his vision, which includes the apocalyptic. As a serious poet, Robbins also tests his readers, challenging them to learn, through his poems, a "way of walking, / flying, and drowning all at once."--Philip Dacey, author of The New York Postcard Sonnets: A Midwesterner Moves to Manhattan

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Backwaters Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0979393477
• ISBN 13: 9780979393471
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 72
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar