MOMENTAN AUSVERKAUFT

Weather by Lisa Robertson (2001, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew Star Books, The Limited
ISBN-100921586817
ISBN-139780921586814
eBay Product ID (ePID)52634951

Product Key Features

Book TitleWeather
Number of Pages88 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCanadian, General
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
GenrePoetry
AuthorLisa Robertson
FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in
Item Weight5.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-347546
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal811/.54
Synopsis"One of Canada's best poets ... Robertson's language is sparkling and sharp, and builds momentum through its rhythmic motion motion to produce a dense and difficult, but enjoyable and readable book ... The Weather rewrites the pastoral with confidence and cunning." -- Prairie Fire "Hip, cerebral, streamlined, and dense, The Weather is about many things, including the poles of ecstasy and intellectualism..." -- The Stranger "Lisa Robertson knows where she is headed, but this is not the only reason that she is a trustworthy writer. Her work results from a reading practice in which words continue to disturb the poet, who is always just beginning to accept that there is more justice in literature than outside it." -- n+1 [A] stunning and severely rich repatterning of the mind's generally uncharted terrain. -- Publishers Weekly A revelation... -- Artforum Light and air, greenery and earth take on unaccustomed qualities in the poet's deft hand in this long poem from Lisa Robertson. Seven sections - "Sunday" to "Saturday," alternating prose and verse, repattern quotidian conversations and atmospheres: "bright and fresh," "brisk and west," "streaky and massed," January to December. A constellation of radical women is invoked to pass, elegiac, among clouds: Violette Leduc, Patty Hearst, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olympe de Gouges, Shulamith Firestone, Ti-grace Atkinson. This is exhilarating poetry, wild and trouble, that seamlessly integrated lived experience with the play in mind. It is sure to entrance. The Weather won the 2002 Relit Award for Poetry., Poetry. New work by the best-selling author of XECLOGUE and DEBBIE: AN EPIC. Consider that we need to drink deeply from convention under faithfully lighthearted circumstances in order to integrate the weather, boredom utopic, with waking life. By 'integrate' we mean: to arc into a space without surface as if it were an inhabitable, flickering event. And by 'convention' we refer to our improprietous infiltration of the long citations of grooming, intimacy, and prognastication. Like flags or vanes, we signify an incommensurability. No elegance is self-sufficient. No-one is old enough to die or to love. The weather is a stretchy, elaborate, delicate trapeze, an abstract and intact conveyance to the genuine future which is also now. Mount its silky rope in ancient makeup and polished muscle to know the idea of tempo as real - from the Introduction by Lisa Robertson.
LC Classification NumberPR9199.3.R5316W43