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3 summers / Lisa Robertson ; art by Hadley+Maxwell.

by Robertson, Lisa, 1961-

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Coach House Books, 2016.

Canadian poetry -- Women authors.

Canadian poetry -- 21st century.

9781552453308 (pbk.)

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119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

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The seam -- Toxins -- On form -- On physical real beginning and what happens next -- The middle -- A coat -- Rivers -- Party -- Third summer -- An awning -- Rose.

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. Poet and essayist 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 (essays). Poet Lisa Robertson was born in Toronto. She lived for many years in Vancouver and currently lives in France.

Canadian poetry.

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