Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture: Third Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1552452328 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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There are essays many originally published as catalogue texts by art galleries on the syntax of the suburban home, Vancouver fountains, Value Village, the joy of synthetics, scaffolding and the persistence of the Himalayan blackberry. This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson. It makes for one of the most intriguing books you’ll ever read.
. She is currently writer in residence at Simon Fraser University. University of California Press published Rousseau's Boat in Spring 2010. Lisa Robertson's books of poetry include XECLOGUE, DEBBIE: AN EPIC (nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1998), THE WEATHER (winner of the Relit Award for Poetry in 2002), THE MEN and LISA ROBERTSON'S MAGENTA SOUL WHIP
The Bacon Fairy said Go for it. This book is great. It's fun, it's factual, the writing style is as great as it is unusual. I got this book for a class, but it's something I'd consider buying for a friend.. Five Stars kh Brilliant. Purchase immediately!
All rights reserved. . From Publishers Weekly The guide to the 13 works and seven "walks" of this little book (4 1/8"×5 7/8") is the "Office for Soft Architecture"-the alter ego of Canadian poet Robertson, author of Debbie: An Epic and The Weather. Public fools."); photos of temporary scalable structures interspersed with Elspeth Pratt's sculptures situate "Doubt and the History of Scaffolding"; a suite of his Paris bedrooms introduces a walk through "Atget's Interiors"; "The Value Village Lyric" wears what appears to be the Office's own thrift-store wardrobe: "We think of the casual bravado of Baudelaire's tied black cravat against the scrim of white collar in the photograph by Nadar." The book brings to mind Lytle Shaw's Cable Factory 20 in its peculiar mix of weirdly enthusiastic investigative p