A Woman of Property
  • Published: 1 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9780143128274
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $45.00

A Woman of Property

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1 Jun 2016
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A new book from a poet whose work is "wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive" (Jorie Graham)

A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

A new book from a poet whose work is "wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive" (Jorie Graham)

Located in a menacing, gothic landscape, the poems that comprise A Woman of Property draw formal and imaginative boundaries against boundless mortal threat, but as all borders are vulnerable, this ominous collection ultimately stages an urgent and deeply imperiled boundary dispute where haunting, illusion, the presence of the past, and disembodied voices only further unsettle questions of material and spiritual possession. This is a theatrical book of dilapidated houses and overgrown gardens, of passageways and thresholds, edges, prosceniums, unearthings, and root systems. The unstable property lines here rove from heaven to hell, troubling proportion and upsetting propriety in the name of unfathomable propagation. Are all the gates in this book folly? Are the walls too easily scaled to hold anything back or impose self-confinement? What won't a poem do to get to the other side?
  • Published: 1 June 2016
  • ISBN: 9780143128274
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 96
  • RRP: $45.00
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Praise for A Woman of Property

Praise for Robyn Schiff's previous collection, Revolver:

"[An] astonishing second collection. . .Schiff's long, beautiful sentences and relentless attention to language, history, and the mystery of the human heart make these poems both thrillingly daunting and compulsively readable." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Schiff's imaginative second book. . .combines as associativeness familiar in contemporary poetry with a very particular consciousness. . .One of the many delights of Revolver is watching Schiff's psyche emerge. . .[her] book captures something very particular about our contemporary relationship with the big questions of politics and God." - Poetry

"Wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive, stitched to perfection by a formal genius that recalls the quirkily perfect forms (and tones) of Marianne Moore, Revolver is a perpetual motion machine in which time, history, matter, and a profound tenderness for the made world knot, rush, pleat, unfurl. . .There is not a poem in this collection that does not amaze." - Jorie Graham