Recite your poem to your aunt. I threw myself to the ground. Where
were you in the night? In a school among the pines. What was the
meaning of the dream? Organs, hormones, toxins, lesions: what is a
body? In 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson takes up her earlier concerns
with form and literary precedent, and turns toward the timeliness
of embodiment. What is form's time? Here the form of life called a
poem speaks with the body's mortality, its thickness, its play. The
10 poem-sequences in 3 Summers inflect a history of textual voices
-- Lucretius, Marx, Aby Warburg, Deleuze, the Sogdian Sutras -- in
a lyricism that insists on analysis and revolt, as well as the
pleasures of description. The poet explores the mysterious oddness
of the body, its languor and persistence, to test how it shapes the
materiality of thinking, which includes rivers and forests. But in
these poems' landscapes, the time of nature is inherently
political. Now only time is wild, and only time -- embodied here in
Lisa Robertson's forceful cadences -- can tell. 'Robertson proves
hard to explain but easy to enjoy...Dauntlessly and resourcefully
intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt...She wields
language expertly, even beautifully. '--The New York Times
'Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn
swooning into a critical gesture.'-- The Village Voice Lisa
Robertson's books include Cinema of the Present, Debbie: An Epic,
The Men, The Weather, R's Boat and Occasional Works and Seven Walks
from the Office for Soft Architecture. Lisa Robertson's Magenta
Soul Whip was named one of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books.
She lives in France.
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