{"product_id":"9781581771183","title":"UNTAM'D WING: Riffs on Romantic Poetry","description":"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.","brand":"Barrytown\/Station Hill Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054119076080,"sku":"9781581771183","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781581771183_p0.jpg?v=1763797847","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781581771183","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}