Description A New York Times Notable Book of 2010 Longlisted for the Warwick Writing Prize Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995-2007.
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,.