Facing It Again: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Robins, Corinne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0984117709 ISBN 13: 9780984117703

Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press, 2009

Synopsis

Poetry. FACING IT AGAIN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Corinne Robins does not shrink from naming her personal pains and triumphs, as well as the works of art that in her view reflect them, faced again as they are embodied in these deeply ruminative poems. This book is a testament to a long and committed life told here with painful honesty in marvelous lyric excursions.

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About the Author:

CORINNE ROBINS, poet, art historian and widely published art critic is the author of the text THE PLURALIST ERA: AMERICAN ART 1968-81 and of five previous poetry collections, most recently FACING IT AGAIN: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. She teaches art criticism at Pratt Institute, is a professor emeritus at the School of Visual Arts, and has curated more than fifteen art exhibitions at the Ceres Gallery in Chelsea, at Pratt Institute and at the Delaware Valley Art Association. She has organized the Poets for Choice reading series at Ceres Gallery since 1995. SAL ROMANO is a Professor Emeritus at Herbert H. Lehman College and throughout the 1970s showed large scale installations at the Max Hutchinson Sculpture Now Gallery in Soho. His present work has evolved from kinetic water installations of the 70;s,80 s 80 s and 90;s. Critic Robert Morgan in Sculpture Magazine wrote, Over the past three decades Romano has been associated with two disparate physical realities; monumentality and water the flow of ambiance and water, the evolution of floation, fragmentation and reductiveness. The pen and ink drawings included here stemmed from the copper and brass surfaces of his recent sculptures. His exhibition record includes museums and alternative spaces with major shows in New York, Brazil, Italy, Switzerland and. Japan.

Review:

TODAY'S MENU? What art and the art of poetry especially are today -- that's what Corinne Robins provides us, nothing short of art in its fullest power, the art of fully invented poem after poem. --Lawrence Joseph

Art, Art, Art!: With exuberant repetition Corinne Robins begins TODAY'S MENU, her best book of poems so far. These poems whisk readers on a fast-clipped journey through the world of visual art from the nineteen sixties to the twenty-first century, displaying delight and depth of gratitude at the life saving nature of the image. She buttonholes her favorite painters and sculptors the way Blake questions his Tyger, firing up exphrasis and burning each poem bright. --Molly Peacock

About this edition

• Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0984117709
• ISBN 13: 9780984117703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98