Lisa Robertson

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Lisa Robertson
Born (1961-07-22)July 22, 1961
Toronto, Ontario
Known for Poems, essays

Lisa Robertson (born on July 22, 1961 in Toronto) is a Canadian poet. She currently lives in France.

Life

In 1979, Robertson moved to British Columbia, where she remained for twenty-three years. During her time there, she was a member of The Kootenay School of Writing, which is a writer-run collective, and Artspeak Gallery. Her first chapbook, The Apothecary, was published by Tsunami Editions in 1991. Since then she has published six books of poetry and two books of essays.

She studied at Simon Fraser University (1984–1988), then left the university to become an independent bookseller (1988–1994). Since 1995 she has been a freelance writer and teacher. Her many essays on the contemporary visual arts, published in gallery and museum catalogues since the mid-1990s, are collected in her 2003 book Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture.

In 2006, she was a judge of the Griffin Poetry Prize and Holloway poet-in-residence at UC Berkeley. From 2007 to 2010 she taught at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. In Fall 2010 she was writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. She currently teaches in the Master of Fine Arts at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.

Selected bibliography

  • The Apothecary (Vancouver, BC: Tsunami, 1991; reissued 2001)
  • The Barscheit Horse with Catriona Strang and Christine Stewart (Hamilton, Ontario: Berkeley Horse, 1993)
  • XEclogue II-V (Vancouver: Sprang Texts, 1993)
  • XEclogue (Vancouver, BC: Tsunami Editions 1993, reissued by New Star Books, 1999)
  • The Glove: An Essay on Interpretation (Vancouver: UBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1993)
  • The Badge (Hamilton, Ontario: The Berkeley Horse/Mindware, 1994)
  • Earth Monies (Mission, BC: DARD, 1995)
  • The Descent (Buffalo, NY: Meow, 1996)
  • Debbie: An Epic (Vancouver, BC: New Star, 1997; UK: Reality Street, 1997)
  • Soft Architecture: A Manifesto (Vancouver: Artspeak Gallery, 1999)
  • The Weather (Vancouver, BC: New Star, 2001; UK: Reality Street, 2001)
  • A Hotel (Vancouver: Vancouver Film School, 2003)
  • Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (Astoria, OR: Clear Cut Press, 2003)
  • Face/ (New York: A Rest Press, 2003)
  • Rousseau’s Boat (Vancouver, BC: Nomados, 2004)
  • First Spontaneous Horizontal Restaurant. Belladonna 75. (Brooklyn: Belladonna Books, 2005)
  • The Men: A Lyric Book (Toronto: BookThug, 2006)
  • Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip (Coach House Press, 2009)
  • R's Boat (University of California Press, 2010)

Selected essays

  • "Coasting" with Jeff Derksen, Nancy Shaw, and Catriona Strang. Telling it Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s. Ed. Mark Wallace. (Tuscaloosa: Alabama UP, 2002)
  • "The Weather: A Report on Sincerity," from DC Poetry Anthology 2001.[1]
  • "How Pastoral: A Manifesto." A Poetics of Criticism. Ed. Juliana Spahr. (Buffalo: Leave Books, 1994)
  • "My Eighteeneth Century." Assembling Alternatives. Ed. Romana Huk. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2003)
  • "On Palinode." Chicago Review 51:4/52:1 (2006)

Selected interviews and conversations

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Robertson, Lisa". Dcpoetry.com. Retrieved 2011-07-02. 

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See also

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