Recite your poem to your aunt. I threw myself to the ground. Where were you in the night? In a school among the pines. What was the meaning of the dream? Organs, hormones, toxins, lesions: what is a body? In 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson takes up her earlier concerns with form and literary precedent, and turns toward the timeliness of embodiment. What is form's time? Here the form of life called a poem speaks with the body's mortality, its thickness, its play. The 10 poem-sequences in 3 Summers inflect a history of textual voices — Lucretius, Marx, Aby Warburg, Deleuze, the Sogdian Sutras — in a lyricism that insists on analysis and revolt, as well as the pleasures of description. The poet explores the mysterious oddness of the body, its languor and persistence, to test how it shapes the materiality of thinking, which includes rivers and forests. But in these poems' landscapes, the time of nature is inherently political. Now only time is wild, and only time — embodied here in Lisa Robertson’s forceful cadences — can tell. "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."—The New York Times "Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture."— The Village Voice Lisa Robertson's books include Cinema of the Present, Debbie: An Epic, The Men, The Weather, R's Boat and Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture. Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip was named one of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books. She lives in France.

リサ・ロバートソンが紡ぐ本作は、身体という神秘的な物質と、思索という抽象的な運動が火花を散らす極めて知的な詩集です。ルクレティウスからドゥルーズに至る思想を血肉化し、肉体の有限性やリズムを「生きた形」として定着させています。単なる抒情を超え、解剖学的かつ挑発的な言葉が読者の皮膚感覚を鋭く震わせます。 見所は、自然の風景を政治的な時間軸として捉え直す大胆な感性にあります。松林の美しさと生々しい生理学が混ざり合い、思考が物質化していく過程は圧巻です。奔放で力強い韻律に身を任せる時、読者は「時間」という唯一の野生を、かつてない切実な快楽として体感するはずです。