LISA ROBERTSON
An evening of poetry from the 2006 - 2007 Holloway Poet.
An evening of poetry from the 2006 - 2007 Holloway Poet.
Lisa Robertson's poetry brings freshness and
vehemence to what are aften formal examinations--
her work interrogates the changing shape of
feminism, the idea of a lyric lineage, the
canonization of a male-dominated philosophical
tradition, the daily forms of discourse around
which we organize our lives, and the formative and
plastic possibilities of language itself. Her work
achieves a remarkable range of effects: it can be
beautiful but chilling, difficult but persuasive,
haunting-- but wonderfully so. "Days heap upon us"
she writes in The Weather, and so too do
her absorbing lines and their multiplying meanings.
Wednesday
September 27th
7:30pm
The Maude Fife Room
7:30pm
The Maude Fife Room
Reception
to follow-- alll are welcome!
✒Read a sample of her
work
Lisa Robertson is the 2006 - 2007 Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in the
Practice of Poetry here at UC Berkeley, an
honor reserved for our finest working and
teaching poets. She is the author of five
books of poetry, including The Weather,
Debbie: An Epic, and most recently,
The Men, along with numerous reviews
of poetry, art, and architecture which have
been published widely. Rousseau's
Boat, one of her twelve chapbooks, was
recenlty awarded the BP Nichol Chapbook Award.
Originally from Canada, Robertson was a member
of The Kootenay School of Writing and Artspeak
Gallery. She now lives in France.
For a list of past recipients of the Lectureship in
the Practice of Poetry, Click Here.
