{"product_id":"cinema-of-the-present-paperback","title":"Cinema of the Present - 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\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the cinema of the present were a Möbius strip of language, a montage of statements and questions sutured together and gradually accumulating color? Would the seams afford a new sensibility around the pronoun \"you\"? Would the precise words of philosophy, fashion, books, architecture, and history animate a new vision, gestural and oblique? Is the kinetic pronoun cinema?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese and other questions are answered in the new collection from acclaimed poet and essayist Lisa Robertson. The book is available with four different back covers, designed by artists Hadley+Maxwell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA quorum of crows will be your witness.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd if you discover you were bought?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou note the smell of rain, bread, and exhaust mixed with tiredness.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd if you yourself are incompatible with your view of the world?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd what is the subject but a stitching?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce again you are the one who promotes artifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt 2 am on Friday, you burn with a maudlin premonition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd rankings and rankings and badges and repetitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Robertson\u003c\/b\u003e's book \u003ci\u003eLisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip\u003c\/i\u003e was named one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Notable Books of 2010 and was longlisted for the 2011 Warwick Prize. Her other books include \u003ci\u003eDebbie: An Epic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Weather\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOccasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the 2014 Bain Swiggett Professor at Princeton University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\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 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 07, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53477459919155,"sku":"9781552452974","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/YfhngXOZGl9781552452974.webp?v=1781610877","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/cinema-of-the-present-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}