Nilling Mia You while insisting on its contemporary

while insisting on its contemporary relevance

Werd ik toen een wij

" Aldus Denker des Vaderlands Paul van Tongeren

She teaches poetry at the New School and serves as Poetry Editor for the arts magazine Hyperallergic

Susana Thénon’s flair for code-switching—from Argentine regionalisms to mock etymologies to an ever-seductive English—seems ahead of its time

Nilling Mia You while insisting on its contemporaryLisa Robertson Nilling is a sequence of 6 loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are essays on reading. Lisa Robertson applies an acute eye to the subject of reading and writingtwo elemental forces that, she suggests, cannot be separated. For Robertson, a book is an intimacy, and with keen and insightful language, Nillings essays build into a lively yet