{"product_id":"robinson-jeffrey-c-untampb","title":"Robinson, Jeffrey C.: Untam'd Wing","description":"\u003cp\u003eStation Hill Press, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: December 1, 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: The jazz term riff is short for riffle-make rough. In Untam'd Wing: Riffs on Romantic Poetry, scholar\/poet Jeffrey Robinson sets out much like a jazz musician to renew a great body of work (say, Miles Davis on George Gershwin)-to recast, as he says in the Prefatory Note, what have become monuments, with all the inertness of passive appreciation that monumentality encourages, into living forms. If he roughs up some of our long-time favorites, it's not to revise, and certainly not to improve, but on the contrary to reveal a timeless dimension that is of the very nature of the Romantic: I would define a 'romantic' poem, of whatever vintage, as one that invites its own renewal in every present. With all the boldness and subtle care of the poets he celebrates, Robinson stakes his life-long involvement as reader, teacher, and scholar\/critic of Romantic poetry on an equally committed absorption and belief in the discoveries of modern and contemporary experimental poetry. Like a true marriage it lays bare both parties.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42534621413399,"sku":"9781581771183","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/content_29240200-7734-4bcf-84dd-7f86abe9c206.jpg?v=1751672956","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/robinson-jeffrey-c-untampb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}