<div><p>"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."?<I>The New York Times</I></P><p>What 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?</P><p>These 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.</P><p><I>A quorum of crows will be your witness.</I></P><p>And if you discover you were bought?</P><p><I>You note the smell of rain, bread, and exhaust mixed with tiredness.</I></P><p>And if you yourself are incompatible with your view of the world?</P><p><I>And what is the subject but a stitching?</I></P><p>Once again you are the one who promotes artifice.</P><p><I>At 2 am on Friday, you burn with a maudlin premonition.</I></P><p>And rankings and rankings and badges and repetitions.</P><p><B>Lisa Robertson</B>'s book <I>Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip</I> was named one of the <I>New York Times</I> 100 Notable Books of 2010 and was longlisted for the 2011 Warwick Prize. Her other books include <I>Debbie: An Epic</I>, <I>The Men</I>, <I>The Weather</I>, and <I>Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture</I>. She is the 2014 Bain Swiggett Professor at Princeton University.<BR></div>