Poetry. Lisa Robertson's latest book of poetry is a work that will be both familiar and fresh to anyone who has read her acclaimed work. THE MEN explores a territory between the poet and a lyric lineage among men. Following a tradition that includes Petrarch's Sonnets, Dante's work on the vernacular, Montaigne, and even Kant, Robertson is compelled towards the construction of the textual subjectivity these authors convey-a subjectivity that honors all the ambivalence, doubt and tenderness of the human. Yet she remains angered by the structure of gender these works advance, and it is this troubled texture of identity that she examines in THE MEN. At once intimate and oblique, humorous and heartbreaking, composed and furious, THE MEN seeks to defamiliarize both who, and what, men are. "In THE MEN, as in much of her work, Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture"--Village Voice. "Robertson writes both from within and against the tradition-splitting, seeding, and suturing the cracks in each ideational edifice.... Her occupations with past forms lead not to a backward-looking poetry but forward to a fresh field of inquiry, an imaginatively created utopia"--Boston Review.

リサ・ロバートソンが本作で挑むのは、ダンテやカントら男性知識人が築いた抒情詩の伝統に対する、知的で官能的な解体と再構築です。彼女は彼らのテキストが持つ曖昧さや優しさを肯定しつつ、そこに潜むジェンダー構造に鋭いメスを入れます。知性を誘惑的なまでに高めた言葉は、既存の価値観を揺さぶり、読者をめくるめく思考の深淵へと誘うでしょう。 本作の真髄は、伝統の裂け目に新たな息吹を吹き込み、未来のユートピアを幻視させる力強さにあります。怒りと慈愛、孤独と親密さが交錯する文体は、私たちが自明視していた男性性という概念を鮮やかに異化します。言葉が世界を再定義する瞬間の震えるような美しさを、ぜひその魂で受け止めてください。