Dear Mairead,
If it's a stethoscope then it's from my desire to read well - Thanks!
>You guys don't
tackle the issue of nationality. Do you think Canadianness is germane to
Robertson?
Yes, in that the context of gallery catalogues and conceptual art in Vancouver is where Robertson's manifesto mode seems to have grown from, and obviously the association with the Kootenay school. In her interview with Kai Fierle-Hedrick (in Chicago Review) Robertson notes "my work is increasingly framed within the context of Canadian poetry, so I'm part of that culture. ...
Does that feel odd?
> No, it feels good to me.
I think your characterisation
>accessible, innovative, fresh, lavish, rangy.
does hold across a lot of the Canadian poetry that beams out to us!
I suppose I didn't discuss the Canadian context because at this point a national culture of reception is not really something I'm interested in writing or thinking about, within different languages, though a tracking of groups/communities based around magazines, cities, countries is possible and fun.
Silliman seems to make a point of writing about every new Robertson book. His review of The Men
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/sometime-toward-end-of-previoushtml
concludes, "Lisa Robertson has emerged as one of the master poets". She has written of the men & the men call her the master.
Melissa
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