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The Men : A Lyric Book - Lisa Robertson

The Men

A Lyric Book

By: Lisa Robertson

Paperback | 1 May 2006

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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.
Industry Reviews

"Lisa Robertson (matador) side-steps irony and thus illustrates how one might undermine and long at the same time. It's a pretty amazing li'l lean book." -Jacket2


"The Men is a challenge, as is each of Robertson's books, but along with what she demands of the reader, she offers plenty to enjoy, to laugh about."-Octopus Magazine


"Roberston's formal investigation of the epistemology of lyric poetry... mirrors the difficulty of her subjects: men, poetry, and construction of the lyric 'I.'" -American Book Review


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