Boat

Lisa Robertson

In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau's Boat , poems culled from years of notebooks that are, nevertheless, by no means autobiographical. In 2010, she expanded the work into a full-length book, R's Boat . During the pandemic, she was drawn back into decades of journals to shape Boat . These poems bring fresh vehemence to Robertson's ongoing examination of the changing shape of feminism, the male-dominated philosophical tradition, the daily forms of discourse, and the possibilities of language itself.