3 Summers Ian Patterson

3 Summers Ian PattersonLisa Robertson Organs, hormones, toxins, lesions: what is a body? In 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson takes up her earlier concerns with form and literary precedent, and turns toward the timeliness of embodiment. What is form's time? Here the form of life called a poem speaks with the body's mortality, its thickness, its play. The ten poem sequences in 3 Summers inflect a history of textual voices Lucretius, Marx, Aby Warburg, Deleuze, the Sogdian Sutras in

fascinated by his wings

and by including this solar dimension she redeems the (pathetic) totality of the whole landscape

In Don’t Let Them See Me Like This

Will Alexander pushes poetic language to the point of most resistance

a Greek myth retold

at times uncomfortable or disturbing questions

recrimination

imbuing the landscapes of her writing with the vividness and energy of fantasy

observed Sigmund Freud

capitalism

Het gedicht eindigt met een uitvoerige beschrijving van de terugtocht

Myrte Leffring