{"product_id":"xeclogue-paperback","title":"Xeclogue - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisa Robertson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst issued by Tsunami Editions in 1993, \u003ci\u003eXEclogue\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of the pleasures of the pastoral poetry from a late-twentieth-century feminist perspective. Robertson, the Governor General's Award finalist, plays in a neo-classical landscape with equal doses of iconoclasm and erudition. This new and revised edition is sure to win new devotees for her rich and exuberant work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Robertson\u003c\/b\u003e is a Canadian poet, essayist and novelist who lives in France. Born in Toronto in 1961, she was a long-time resident of Vancouver. She has published nine books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eBoat\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), and two books of essays, \u003ci\u003eNilling\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and \u003ci\u003eOccasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). Her 2021 book \u003ci\u003eAnemones: A Simone Weil Project\u003c\/i\u003e (If I Can't Dance, Amsterdam), an annotated translation of Weil's 1942 essay on the troubadour poets and the Cathar heresy, is the most recent outcome of \u003ci\u003ewide rime\u003c\/i\u003e, her ongoing study of medieval troubadour culture and poetics. She has been a visiting poet and professor at Princeton University, University of Cambridge, U East Anglia, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Piet Zwart Institute, Simon Fraser University, American University of Paris, Naropa, and California College of the Arts. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018 the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in New York awarded her the inaugural C. D. Wright Award in Poetry. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Baudelaire Fractal\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been published in French, Swedish, and Turkish translations. A second novel, \u003ci\u003eRiverwork\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from Coach House Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.6 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48290433138937,"sku":"9780921586722","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/9MSVovqah9780921586722.webp?v=1776283601","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/xeclogue-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}