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Lisa Robertson's fourth collection of poetry, The Weather, explores in both form and content the cyclical patterns of experience. Weaving lush observations of the flux and flow of the natural world with a scholar's attention to the evolution of ideas and their expression, it demonstrates how patterns of nature and thought reflect and influence each other. The circular movement of endings and beginnings is mirrored in the book's structure, a progression through the days of the week that concludes with a brief section titled "Porchverse." Here, the speaker rests, considers the details of what has passed and realizes that "I've never done anything / but begin." The reader is thus carried back to the beginning of the book, to the opening lines of "Sunday" and the present tense of weather: "About here. All along here."
Like the vagaries of weather, the language of this collection is both intricate and wild, particularly in the sometimes tumbling, sometimes staticky prose pieces that precede shorter and more conventional first-person lyrics. Drawing on influences as diverse as Wordsworth's Prelude, Hesiod, chaos theory, and English meteorological descriptions, Robertson, a finalist for the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1998, may be compared to Erin Mouré in her inventiveness and intelligence. In its meticulous thunder and political insight, The Weather is a collection that encourages multiple readings. --Karen Solie
From Publishers Weekly
"I'll finger/ sincerity, by exemplum relate/ a portrait of my luck." The fourth book from the Vancouver-based Robertson (following Xeclogue and Debbie: An Epic) is another book-length poem and another stunning and severely rich repatterning of the mind's generally uncharted terrain. Sectioning the poem under headings spanning each day of the week, Robertson combines extended prose poems with shorter lyrics to embark on "intense yet eccentric research in the rhetorical structure of English meteorological description" hence the title. Despite Robertson's mannered description of her project, The Weather is a nervy, rhythmic creation of a poetic environment. Using a shifting litany structure throughout each prose piece, Robertson is able to isolate and change conceptually driven thought to unfiltered registering of consciousness with breathtaking quickness: "Say cup of your heart rush/ sluice is yellow sluice Kate Moss is Rousseau/ have my arms. Say impasto of/ atmosphere for her fur. Halo open." Robertson references a number of radical feminist figures and thinkers (Mary Wollstonecraft, Shulamith Firestone, Violette Leduc) in the "Tuesday" section of the poem, and as the week moves on her rhetorically based surfaces are continually ruptured by an unrestrained, musically conducted mode of transformation: "Pattern undercuts the slamming heat; we speak into the dark and make corrections: Shadow for Hour. Tantrum for Lyre. Lure for Light. Rapture for Kaput." When Roberston writes "I am always wrong/ to anticipate the intelligible," the slyly humor-based sharpness of her poetic sensibility is wide open. (July) Forecast: Robertson is a member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective, which includes Jeff Derksen, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Peter Culley and Dan Farrell. This book from British Columbia's New Star, similar in orientation to New York's Seven Stories press, will be well reviewed within the North American small press community, where Debbie continues to be a steady seller.
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