Cinema of the Present

Lisa Robertson

Cinema of the Present
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Coach House Books
Country
Canada
Published
7 October 2014
Pages
112
ISBN
9781552452974

Cinema of the Present

Lisa Robertson

Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy… . Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt… . She wields language expertly, even beautifully. -The New York Times

What if the cinema of the present were a Moebius strip of language, a montage of statements and questions sutured together and gradually accumulating color? Would the seams afford a new sensibility around the pronoun you ? Would the precise words of philosophy, fashion, books, architecture, and history animate a new vision, gestural and oblique? Is the kinetic pronoun cinema?

These and other questions are answered in the new collection from acclaimed poet and essayist Lisa Robertson. The book is available with four different back covers, designed by artists Hadley+Maxwell.

A quorum of crows will be your witness.

And if you discover you were bought?

You note the smell of rain, bread, and exhaust mixed with tiredness.

And if you yourself are incompatible with your view of the world?

And what is the subject but a stitching?

Once again you are the one who promotes artifice.

At 2 am on Friday, you burn with a maudlin premonition.

And rankings and rankings and badges and repetitions.

Lisa Robertson’s book Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip was named one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010 and was longlisted for the 2011 Warwick Prize. Her other books include Debbie: An Epic, The Men, The Weather, and Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture. She is the 2014 Bain Swiggett Professor at Princeton University.

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