LONGLISTED FOR THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARDFrom the author of The Baudelaire Fractal a poetry classic with new work In 2004 boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook Rousseaus Boat poems culled from years of notebooks that are nevertheless by no means autobiographical. In 2010 she expanded the work into a fulllength book Rs Boat. During the pandemic she was drawn back into decades of journals to shape Boat. These poems bring fresh vehemence to Robertsons ongoing examination of the changing shape of feminism the maledominated philosophical tradition the daily forms of discourse and the possibilities of language itself. Robertson has quietly but surely emerged as one of our most exciting and prolific philosophersI mean poets. Interested in architecture weather systems fashion autobiography gender the classics and just about everything else she manages to irradiate her subjects with calm wit and astonishing beauty. Robertsons style is both on splendid display and under fierce interrogation in her latest book Rs Boat. Kenyon Review In Rs Boat Robertson has penned a postconceptual postlyric relentlessly selfexamining performance of memory and sincerity that manages remarkably to be both theoretically concerned and deeply emotive. Harvard Review Rs Boat grapples with form the constraint of language and tradition and the challenge to avoid anything that might exist as template. The poems examine feminism discourse the body and poetry itself through sumptuous seductive language. American Poets