Shacks, Value Village, Vancouver fountains, scaffolding, suburbia, synthetics and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry: delectably incongruous subjects find stirring cross-contamination in the
"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
"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."—Th
A New York Times Notable Book of 2010Longlisted for the Warwick Writing PrizeVerses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995?2007. Collected by Elisa S
Literary Nonfiction. NILLING: PROSE is a sequence of five loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are
In Vancouver as the dark winter tapered into springI undertook to singMy life my body these wordsThe men from a perspective.The Men is a work that will be both familiar and fresh to anyone who has rea
