The Men - by Lisa Robertson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Poetry. Lisa Robertson's latest book of poetry is a work that will be both familiar and fresh to anyone who has read her acclaimed work. THE MEN explores a territory between the poet and a lyric lineage among men. Following a tradition that includes Petrarch's Sonnets, Dante's work on the vernacular, Montaigne, and even Kant, Robertson is compelled towards the construction of the textual subjectivity these authors convey-a subjectivity that honors all the ambivalence, doubt and tenderness of the human. Yet she remains angered by the structure of gender these works advance, and it is this troubled texture of identity that she examines in THE MEN. At once intimate and oblique, humorous and heartbreaking, composed and furious, THE MEN seeks to defamiliarize both who, and what, men are. "In THE MEN, as in much of her work, Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture"--Village Voice. "Robertson writes both from within and against the tradition-splitting, seeding, and suturing the cracks in each ideational edifice.... Her occupations with past forms lead not to a backward-looking poetry but forward to a fresh field of inquiry, an imaginatively created utopia"--Boston Review.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In Vancouver as the dark winter tapered into springI undertook to singMy life my body these wordsThe men from a perspective.<em>The Men</em> is a work that will be both familiar and fresh to anyone who has read Lisa Robertson. As a poet Robertson has received unrivaled praise for her uncompromising intelligence and style. <em>The Men</em> will not only compliment her previous work, but will add a new layer as a far more personal and lyrical book than anything she has yet published. Who are the men? <em>The Men</em>are a riddle. What do they want? Their troubles become lyric. <em>The Men</em> explores a territory between the poet and a lyric lineage among men. Following a tradition that includes Petrarchï s Sonnets, Cavalcanti, Danteï s works on the vernacular, Montaigne, and even Kant, Robertson is compelled towards the construction of the textual subjectivity these authors convey - a subjectivity that honours all the ambivalence, doubt, and tenderness of the human. Yet she remains angered by the structure of gender these works advance. It is this troubled texture of identification that she examines in <em>The Men</em>. How does a woman of the present century see herself, in menï s lyric texts of the renaissance, in the tradition of the philosophy of the male subject, as well as in the men that surround her, obfuscating, dear, idiotic and gorgeous as they often seem? What if ï sheï wrote ï hisï poems? At once intimate and oblique, humorous and heartbreaking, composed and furious, - The Men seeks to defamiliarize both who, and what men are.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Born in Toronto, Lisa Robertson moved to British Columbia in 1979, first to Saltspring Island; later to Vancouver. A regular contributor to <i>Nest</i> and a longstanding member of the Kootenay School of Writing Collective, she has worked as a bookseller, an editor and as an art and cultural critic. In addition, she teaches poetry workshops, presents talks about contemporary poetics and has served on the board of Artspeak Gallery. She currently lives in France.</p>
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