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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 200grams, ISBN: 9780520262409.
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Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include From the library of labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys dvds etc. We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.
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Berkeley. 2010. April 2010. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520262409. 96 pages. paperback. keywords: Modern & Contemporary Poetry. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Inspired by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, some parts published earlier in the chapbook Rousseau's Boat, this volume comprises 5 long poems: 'Of Mechanics in Rousseau's Thought, ' 'The Present, ' 'A Cuff, ' 'Utopia, ' & 'Palinode. ' The penultimate poem, 'Utopia, ' a diary-poem, opens: 'It was 1953/Yet everything that happened was real, that summer evening. /What's the difference between a behaviour and a game? . /On the second Monday of October, at ten minutes past eleven. /I was drunk on well-cut gabardine, jets and failure. /This is one part of the history of a girl's mind. ' In this poem and the others, Robertson explores not only the history of her speaker's consciousness but also intimate experiences & perceptions, her utterances declamatory & lucid, yet grounded in the body's sensory experiences, knowledge worn lightly & with a subtle comic sense, groundwork for a fiercely speculative sensibility. Robertson takes the everyday as her subject, in order to move through it, uncovering layers of the historical, lyrical, and political, the poems informed by wide reading, as she weighs and considers phenomena, experience, emotion, consciousness: 'And if I become unintelligible to myself/Because of having refused to believe/I transcribe a substitution/Like the accidental folds of a scarf. ' inventory #37627.
