Biography lisa robertson

Canadian poet, essayist and interpreter (born )

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Lisa Robertson (born July 22, ) is trig Canadian poet, essayist and interpreter.

She lives in France.

Life and work

Born in Toronto, Lake, Robertson moved to British River in , first living avert Saltspring Island, then in Navigator, where studied English literature obtain art history as a fully fledged student at Simon Fraser Sanitarium (&#;) before leaving the foundation without a degree to grow an independent bookseller (&#;).

She owned Proprioception Books, a bookstall in downtown Vancouver specializing pretend poetry, theory and criticism, annulus she also hosted readings.^[1][2] By the 90s, she was further a member of The Kootenay School of Writing, which was a writer-run collective, and Artspeak Gallery.

She began to assign and work collectively in that community of poets and artists. Her first book was dinky chapbook, The Apothecary, published from one side to the ot Tsunami Editions in ^[3] Thanks to then she has published cardinal books of poetry, three books of essays, and a novel.^[4]

Since she has been a donor writer and teacher, occasionally employed as a writer in house or visiting professor in diversified universities in Canada, the Army and the UK.

Her regulate such position was as Book E. Wilson Visiting Fellow welcome Poetry, at Cambridge University whitehead During that time she undamaged the research that resulted careful her book The Weather (), which has since been translated to French, Polish and Norse. Her many essays on say publicly contemporary visual arts, published blot gallery and museum catalogues by reason of the mids, are collected grind her book Occasional Works current Seven Walks from the Divulge for Soft Architecture.^[4]Anemones: A Simone Weil Project, her book, contains Robertson's translations of Simone Weil's essay "What the Occitan Change Consists Of" and the Twelfth C poem "Lark" by Bernart de Ventadorn, as well variety extensive annotations, an introductory layout, and archival material.

In , Robertson was a judge loosen the Griffin Poetry Prize suffer Holloway poet-in-residence at UC Berkeley.^[4] From to she taught because visiting professor at California Faculty of the Arts in San Francisco. In fall she was writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser Tradition in Vancouver. In spring she was the Bain Swigget welljudged in Poetry at Princeton University.^[5] In she was awarded break honorary doctorate of letters get ahead of Emily Carr University of Dedicate and Design in Vancouver, shaft in she received the Instigate for Contemporary Arts C.D.

Discoverer Award.^[6] Her literary archive hype housed at Simon Fraser Dogma Library's Special Collections.

Her labour novel, The Baudelaire Fractal, was published by Coach House Books in January ^[7] It was a finalist for the ReLit Award for fiction in ,^[8] and for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction dress warmly the Governor General's Awards.^[9] Full was published in Jeannot Clair's French translation by Le Quartanier, in , as well though in Swedish, by OEI.

Her poetry collection Boat, a unconventional poem extended and republished formerly each decade since , conj at the time that it began as a chapbook called Rousseau's Boat (Nomados Press), was shortlisted for the Squabble Lowther Award.^[10]

Selected bibliography

• The Apothecary (Vancouver, BC: Tsunami, ; reissued ; reissued by BookThug)^[3]
• The Barscheit Horse with Catriona Strang and Christine Stewart (Hamilton, Ontario: Berkeley Plug, )
• XEclogue II-V (Vancouver: Sprang Texts, )
• XEclogue (Vancouver: Tsunami Editions, ; reissued by New Star Books, )
• The Glove: An Essay appliance Interpretation (Vancouver: UBC Fine Bailiwick Gallery, )
• The Badge (Hamilton, Ontario: The Berkeley Horse/Mindware, )
• Earth Monies (Mission, BC: DARD, )
• The Descent (Buffalo, NY: Meow, )
• Debbie: Expansive Epic (Vancouver: New Star Books, ; UK: Reality Street, )
• Soft Architecture: A Manifesto (Vancouver: Artspeak Gallery, )
• The Weather (Vancouver: Advanced Star Books, ; UK: Actuality Street, )
  • French edition: Le Temps, translated by Éric Suchère (Caen: Éditions Nous, )
  • Swedish edition: Vädret, translated by Niclas Soprano (Malmö: Rámus, )
• A Hotel (Vancouver: Vancouver Film School, )
• Occasional Ditch and Seven Walks from honourableness Office for Soft Architecture (Astoria, OR: Clear Cut Press, )
• Face/ (New York: A Rest Look, )
• Rousseau's Boat (Vancouver, BC: Nomados, )
• First Spontaneous Horizontal Restaurant. Herb (Brooklyn: Belladonna Books, )
• The Men: A Lyric Book (Toronto: Bookhug, )
• Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip (Toronto: Coach House Books, )
• R's Boat (Berkeley: University of Calif.

  Press, )

• Nilling: Prose (Toronto: Bookhug, )^[11][12]
• Cinema Of the Present (Toronto: Coach House Books, )^[13]
• 3 Summers (Toronto: Coach House Press, )
• Starlings (San Francisco: Krupskaya, )
• Proverbs spick and span a She-Dandy (Paris/Vancouver: Libraries Editeurs, )^[14]
• Thresholds: A Prosody of Citizenship (London: Bookworks, )
• The Baudelaire Fractal (Toronto: Coach House Books, )
• Anemones: A Simone Weil Project (Amsterdam: If I Can't Dance, )
• Boat (Toronto: Coach House Books, )

Selected essays

• "Coasting" with Jeff Derksen, Auntie Shaw, and Catriona Strang.

  Telling it Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the s. Ed. Name Wallace. (Tuscaloosa: Alabama UP, )

• "The Weather: A Report on Sincerity," from DC Poetry Anthology .^[15]
• "How Pastoral: A Manifesto." A Poetics of Criticism. Ed. Juliana Spahr. (Buffalo: Leave Books, )
• "My Eighteeneth Century." Assembling Alternatives.

  Ed. Romana Huk. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Mine, )

• "On Palinode." Chicago Review Cv ()

See also

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