Lisa Robertson Fonds Simon Fraser University Special Collections ...

Fonds DescriptionTitle: Lisa Robertson FondsDate: 1987 -Extent: 6.5 m textual records and other materialsBiographical History:Lisa Robertson was born on 22 July 1961 in Newmarket, Ontario. In 1979, she moved toVancouver, where she attended Simon Fraser University and became involved in the KootenaySchool of Writing, an artist-run collective that works to advance avant-garde writing practices.Robertson is the author of several books of poetry, including The Apothecary (1991), XEclogue(1993), Debbie: An Epic (1997), The Weather (2001), Rousseau’s Boat (2004), and The Men: ALyric Book (2006), and has contributed to various anthologies. She has also written manychapbooks; essays and reviews on poetry, contemporary art, and architecture; and regularcolumns for various magazines and journals (among them, Mix Magazine and the interiordesign magazine, Nest). She edited the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology, and has worked inan editorial capacity on several journals, including Raddle Moon, Front, and Barscheit.Robertson has received wide recognition for her work: She was nominated for the GovernorGeneral’s Award for Poetry in 1998 for Debbie: An Epic; She won the Relit Award for Poetry in2002 for The Weather; and in 2006, she received the bpNichol Chapbook Award for Rousseau’sBoat.In 1999, Robertson was granted the Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellowship in Poetry by theUniversity of Cambridge. She was a visiting poet and lecturer at the University of California atSan Diego in 2003, and in 2006/7, she served as the Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in thePractice of Poetry at the University of California at Berkeley. Currently (2008) she is a visitingartist and lecturer at the California College of the Arts. She has taught at Capilano College, theAmerican University of Paris, Dartington College for the Arts, and at Naropa University’s JackKerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She has also served on the advisory boards of ArtspeakGallery and Emily Carr Institute Press, and as a judge for the Griffin Poetry Prize.Between 2003 and 2007, Robertson lived in France. She now lives in Oakland, CA.Custodial History:Items in this collection were created or accumulated by Lisa Robertson and remained in herpossession until the time of acquisition by Simon Fraser University Special Collections and RareBooks.

Poetry in Periodicals"Pink Cotton: A Novel." BC Monthly (1990)."parts." Raddle Moon (1990).The Apothecary [excerpt]. Writing (1991)."Portrait of Vivian Westwood: The Little Story of the Queen." Barscheit 3 (Jan 1992)."Some Word Ripped, Some Apartment." Barscheit 3 (Jan 1992)."Barscheit Nation" [with Christine Stewart and Catriona Strang]. Mirage/ Periodical (1993)."Barscheit Nation" [with Christine Stewart and Catriona Strang]. Oblek 12 (1993)."How Pastoral: A Manifesto." The Capilano Review (1993)."Eclogue One: Honour." The Capilano Review (1993)."XEclogue VIII & IX." WestCoast Line (1993)."Debbie's Folly and How to Judge." Parataxis 8-9 (1994)."Phatic." Giantess: The Organ of the New Abjectionists 1 [Edited by Susan Clark, Lisa Robertson, ChristineStewart, and Catriona Strang]. (June 1995)."Exordium." The Capilano Review (1995)."The Badge." Tessera 19 (1995)."The Device." East Village Poetry Web (1995). ."Phatic."Parallel2(6Nov 1995). ."Index A: Lyric or Prohibitive." Chain 3 (1996)."Battle Scene." Critical Quarterly 38.3 (1996)."Battle Cry." Matrix (1997)."Primitivera" [with Christine Stewart]. Big Allis 8 (1998)."Porchverse." Raddle Moon 17 (1998)."Essay on Place." Sulfur 44 (1998)."Wednesday" [excerpt from The Weather]. W 1(1999)"Pleasure Components." Stand 1.1 (1999).

"Third Walk from the Office for Soft Architecture." Front (Jan-Feb 2000)."Fourth Walk from the Office for Soft Architecture." Front (March-April 2000)."Fifth Walk (Document of Morning) from the Office for Soft Architecture." Front (May-June 2000)."Second Walk from the Office for Soft Architecture." WestCoast Line (Spring 2000)."Monday" [excerpt from The Weather]. Dandelion 26.1 (2000)."Tuesday" [excerpt from The Weather]. The Gig 6 (2000)."Spatial Synthetics: A Theory." Mix (Winter 2001)."Spatial Synthetics — A Theory." Jacket 14 (2001). .The Men [excerpt]. Matrix (Summer 2001)."Elle n'a pas arreté de repasser ses pantalons" [translated by Nathalie Quintaine]. Java 21-22 (2001)."On the Early Education of the Soft Architect." Bombay Gin (2001)."For Soft Architects: Lucite." Narrativity 1 (2002)..The Men [excerpt]. Tessera (Winter 2002).The Men [excerpt]. Raddle Moon 19 (2002).The Weather [excerpt]. Public (Summer 2003)."The Poem in 1994." W 7 (Fall 2003). ."A Hotel." Brick (Summer 2003)."Lucy Hogg by Baudelaire." Filling Station (Fall 2003)."Clinamen." Onsets (Spring 2004)."A Letter from the 19th Arrondissement to Peter Culley." The Rain (Summer 2004)."The Window." Nest (Fall 2004)."On Painting." Brick (Fall 2004)."After Trees." Brick (Fall 2004)."Spontaneous Horizontal Restaurants." Public 30 (Winter 2005).

"Doubt and the History of Scaffolding." Elspeth Pratt [exhibition catalogue]. Vancouver: ArtspeakGallery, 2002."How to Colour." Renee van Halm, Dream Home [exhibition catalogue]. Vancouver: Contemporary ArtGallery, 2002."Playing House: A Brief Account of the Idea of a Shack." Liz Magor [exhibition catalogue]. Vancouver: ArtGallery, 2002."The Himalayan Blackberry Runner as Regional Architectural Ornament: A Report from the Office forSoft Architecture." Cabinet (2002)."The Value Village Manifesto." Baja to Vancouver [exhibition catalogue]. San Francisco: CaliforniaCollege for the Arts, 2003."Something Subtle" [published under the pseudonym "Swann"; on decorator Jacques Grange andarchitect Hector Guimard; photos by Nan Goldin]. Nest 24 (2004)."The Golden Age" [published under the pseudonym "Swann"; on decoratorBilly Haines; photos by Eliot Elisofen]. Nest 25 (2004).Contributions to Anthologies"Barscheit Nation" [with Christine Stewart and Catriona Strang]. Semiotext(e) Canadas. Ed. JordonZinovich. New York: Autonomedia, 1994.Debbie: An Epic [excerpt]. Out of Everywhere: Innovative Writing by Women in North America and theUK. Ed. Maggie O'Sullivan. London: Reality Street Editions, 1995.XEclogue [excerpt]. Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry 1993-94. Ed. Douglas Messerli. LosAngeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1995.Debbie: An Epic [excerpt]. Exact Change Yearbook. Ed. Peter Gizzi. Boston: Exact Change, 1995.[Published in the UK by Carcanet, 1995.]XEclogue [excerpt]. Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women. Ed. Mary MargaretSloan. Jersey City: New Talisman House, 1998.The Apothecary [excerpt]. Writing Class: The Kootenay School of Writing Anthology. Ed. MichaelBarnholden and Andrew Klobucar. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1999.Debbie: An Epic [excerpt]. The New Long Poem Anthology. 2nd edition. Ed. Sharon Thesen. Vancouver:Talon Books, 2001.Debbie: An Epic [excerpt]. Love Poems for a Media Age. Ed. David Samis. Vancouver: Ripple Effect Press,2001.

Debbie: An Epic [excerpt]. An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of TheirArt. Ed. Annie Finch and Katherine Varnes. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002.The Office for Soft Architecture [excerpt]. Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative. Ed. Gail Scott et al.Toronto: Coach House Press, 2004.The Weather [excerpt]. Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems. Ed. Rod Mengham and John Kinsella.Cambridge, UK: Salt, 2005.The Weather [excerpt]. Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets. Ed. Sina Queyras. New York:Persea Books, 2005.How Pastoral: A Manifesto [excerpt]. Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics. Ed. Deborah Brown et al.Fayetteville: U of Arkansas, 2005.