Publication

2016 - , Ontario

Language

English

Word Count

29,750 words, Guess

Page Count

119 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101552453308
  • ISBN-139781552453308
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016497461
  • OCLC Control Number944463900
  • Better World Books9781552453308
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPR9199.3.R5316 A6 2016
  • LCCPR9199.3.R5316A6

Alternate Titles

  • Three summers

Description

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.

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