A" New York Times" Notable Book of 2010
Longlisted for the Warwick Writing Prize
Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 19952007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin.
Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine the past its ideas, its personages, its syntax to construct a lexicon of the future. Her poems both court and cuckold subjectivity by unmasking its fundament of sex and hesitancy, the coil of doubt in its certitude. Reading her laments and utopias, we realize that language whiplike casts ahead of itself a fortuitous form. The form...