{"product_id":"cinema-of-the-present-9781552452974","title":"Cinema of the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if the cinema of the present were a Möbius strip of language, a montage of statements and questions sutured together and gradually accumulating color? Would the seams afford a new sensibility around the pronoun \"you\"? Would the precise words of philosophy, fashion, books, architecture, and history animate a new vision, gestural and oblique? Is the kinetic pronoun cinema?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese and other questions are answered in the new collection from acclaimed poet and essayist Lisa Robertson. The book is available with four different back covers, designed by artists Hadley+Maxwell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA quorum of crows will be your witness.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd if you discover you were bought?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou note the smell of rain, bread, and exhaust mixed with tiredness.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd if you yourself are incompatible with your view of the world?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd what is the subject but a stitching?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce again you are the one who promotes artifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt 2 am on Friday, you burn with a maudlin premonition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd rankings and rankings and badges and repetitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Robertson\u003c\/b\u003e's book \u003ci\u003eLisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip\u003c\/i\u003e was named one of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Notable Books of 2010 and was longlisted for the 2011 Warwick Prize. Her other books include \u003ci\u003eDebbie: An Epic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Weather\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOccasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the 2014 Bain Swiggett Professor at Princeton University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisa Robertson: Poet and essayist Lisa Robertson's book \u003ci\u003eLisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip\u003c\/i\u003e (Coach House) was named one of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Notable Books of 2010, and was longlisted for the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing. Her other books include \u003ci\u003eDebbie: An Epic\u003c\/i\u003e (nominated for the Governor General's Award in Canada), \u003ci\u003eThe Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Weather\u003c\/i\u003e (poetry) and \u003ci\u003eOccasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e (essays). Her most recent publication is \u003ci\u003eR's Boat\u003c\/i\u003e, published by University of California Press. She is the Bain Swiggett Professor at Princeton University. She has held residencies at the California College of the Arts, Cambridge University; University of California, Berkeley; UC San Diego; and American University of Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524806086930,"sku":"9781552452974","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_87d23180-0a28-46d4-99f8-be315478e22e.jpg?v=1731193467","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cinema-of-the-present-9781552452974","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}