{"product_id":"3-summers-paperback","title":"3 Summers - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisa Robertson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRecite your poem to your aunt.\u003cbr\u003eI threw myself to the ground.\u003cbr\u003eWhere were you in the night?\u003cbr\u003eIn a school among the pines.\u003cbr\u003eWhat was the meaning of the dream?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOrgans, hormones, toxins, lesions: what is a body? In \u003ci\u003e3 Summers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003e3 Summers\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'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.'--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture.'--\u003ci\u003e The Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Robertson\u003c\/b\u003e is a Canadian poet, essayist and novelist who lives in France. Born in Toronto in 1961, she was a long-time resident of Vancouver. She has published nine books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eBoat\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), and two books of essays, \u003ci\u003eNilling\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and \u003ci\u003eOccasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). Her 2021 book \u003ci\u003eAnemones: A Simone Weil Project\u003c\/i\u003e (If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam), an annotated translation of Weil's 1942 essay on the troubadour poets and the Cathar heresy, is the most recent outcome of \u003ci\u003ewide rime\u003c\/i\u003e, her ongoing study of medieval troubadour culture and poetics. She has been a visiting poet and professor at Princeton University, University of Cambridge, U East Anglia, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Piet Zwart Institute, Simon Fraser University, American University of Paris, Naropa, and California College of the Arts. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018 the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in New York awarded her the inaugural C. D. Wright Award in Poetry. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Baudelaire Fractal\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been published in French, Swedish, and Turkish translations. A second novel, \u003ci\u003eRiverwork\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from Coach House Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.7 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 18, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53477458510131,"sku":"9781552453308","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/1rwdk6V_249781552453308.webp?v=1781610784","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/3-summers-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}