Lisa Robertson (1) (1961–)
Author of Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
For other authors named Lisa Robertson, see the disambiguation page.
Works by Lisa Robertson
Associated Works
The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (New Series) (2012) — Contributor — 28 copies
Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America (2012) — Contributor — 11 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1961-07-22
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Places of residence
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Oakland, California, USA
France - Education
- Simon Fraser University
- Occupations
- poet
professor
bookseller
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Awards
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- Works
- 27
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 581
- Popularity
- #43,163
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 47
- Languages
- 1
"A garment is a pause in textile."
"Fashion is the net of the history of love."
"I think my feeling for painting is a deferred material telepathy, an elemental magnetism. I was noticing a mineral sympathy of my body’s iron and copper and calcium towards paint."
"I happened upon an emancipation from vocables into the substance of mortality."
"I’ll be a feminine man whose decadent joy resists all appropriation. I’ll be untimely only."
"Anyone without a language for desire perishes."
"I wanted to escape the violent sociology of beauty to experience aesthetics as an even redistribution of the senses across the most banal parts of dailiness."
"I entered literature like an assassin, leaking, fucking, wanting, drinking."
"That spring I put tulips in all my poems. They were fists, they were cunts, they were clocks."
"The sexuality of sentences: Reader, I weep in it."
"My walks with my dog through the fields are theoretical experiments in the association of arcane concepts with a material history of margins."… (more)