I wanted narrative to be a picture of distances ringed in purple. Then I wanted it to be electronic fields exempt from sentiment. Then I wanted it to be the patient elaboration of my senses. The boldly original Canadian poet Lisa Robertson has received high praise for the uncompromising intelligence and style of her poetry. In R's Boat, she brings us to the crossroads of poetry, theory, the body, and cultural criticism. These poems bring fresh vehemence to Robertson's ongoing examination of the changing shape of feminism ...
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I wanted narrative to be a picture of distances ringed in purple. Then I wanted it to be electronic fields exempt from sentiment. Then I wanted it to be the patient elaboration of my senses. The boldly original Canadian poet Lisa Robertson has received high praise for the uncompromising intelligence and style of her poetry. In R's Boat, she brings us to the crossroads of poetry, theory, the body, and cultural criticism. These poems bring fresh vehemence to Robertson's ongoing examination of the changing shape of feminism, the male-dominated philosophical tradition, the daily forms of discourse, and the possibilities of language itself. Praise for Lisa Robertson's The Men: "In The Men , as in much of her work, Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture."- Village Voice "Robertson writes both from within and against the tradition-splitting, seeding, and suturing the cracks in each ideational edifice. . . . Her occupations with past forms lead not to a backward-looking poetry but forward to a fresh field of inquiry, an imaginatively created utopia."- Boston Review
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Add this copy of R'S Boat to cart. $22.40, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by University of California Press.
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Berkeley. 2010. April 2010. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520262409. 96 pages. paperback. keywords: Modern & Contemporary Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Inspired by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, some parts published earlier in the chapbook Rousseau's Boat, this volume comprises 5 long poems: 'Of Mechanics in Rousseau's Thought, ' 'The Present, ' 'A Cuff, ' 'Utopia, ' & 'Palinode. ' The penultimate poem, 'Utopia, ' a diary-poem, opens: 'It was 1953/Yet everything that happened was real, that summer evening. /What's the difference between a behaviour and a game? . /On the second Monday of October, at ten minutes past eleven. /I was drunk on well-cut gabardine, jets and failure. /This is one part of the history of a girl's mind. ' In this poem and the others, Robertson explores not only the history of her speaker's consciousness but also intimate experiences & perceptions, her utterances declamatory & lucid, yet grounded in the body's sensory experiences, knowledge worn lightly & with a subtle comic sense, groundwork for a fiercely speculative sensibility. Robertson takes the everyday as her subject, in order to move through it, uncovering layers of the historical, lyrical, and political, the poems informed by wide reading, as she weighs and considers phenomena, experience, emotion, consciousness: 'And if I become unintelligible to myself/Because of having refused to believe/I transcribe a substitution/Like the accidental folds of a scarf. ' inventory #37627.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 200grams, ISBN: 9780520262409.
