{"product_id":"information-desk-an-epic","title":"Information Desk: An Epic","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Among the year's highlights . . . groundbreaking, epic . . . Like visitors exiting the Met's galleries, readers will emerge from \u003ci\u003eInformation Desk\u003c\/i\u003e bedazzled by the transformative horizons of art.\" --\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An effluvial rush of memory, desire, data, and metaphor . . . It's bracing to encounter a mind so voracious, so unapologetic in its intelligence.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Robyn 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, \u003ci\u003eInformation Desk: An Epic\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Novelistic in its sweep, frantically informative, and deeply intimate in its private recollections, \u003ci\u003eInformation Desk: An Epic\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eInformation Desk: An Epic\u003c\/i\u003e undertakes a hemorrhaging ekphrastic journey through artifice and the natural world.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43633232576709,"sku":"","price":48.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/Information_20Desk.jpg?v=1717089614","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/information-desk-an-epic","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}