<p><span><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD</b></span><strong><br></strong></p><p><strong>From the author of <i>The Baudelaire Fractal</i>, a poetry classic, with new work</strong></p><p>In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, <i>Rousseau¿s Boat</i>, poems culled from years of notebooks that are, nevertheless, by no means autobiographical. In 2010, she expanded the work into a full-length book, <i>R¿s Boat</i>. During the pandemic, she was drawn back into decades of journals to shape <i>Boat</i>. 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.</p><p>¿Robertson has quietly but surely emerged as one of our most exciting and prolific philosophers¿I mean poets. Interested in architecture, weather sys