{"product_id":"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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035461959920,"sku":"9781552452974","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781552452974_p0.jpg?v=1763751686","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781552452974","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}