ROBERTSON, Lisa
The Apothecary

The Apothecary stems from the author’s desire to remake the sentence—to let it be capacious, preposterous, convivial, and hang it from a pronoun worn like a phantom limb. Lisa Robertson wants that ghostly pronoun to reinvent itself afresh in each sentence. Looking towards the eighteenth century, sometimes through a lens occasionally borrowed from contemporary sources, the text of The Apothecary is precise, intoxicating materia medica dispensed by one of Canada’s most important contemporary poets. [publisher’s note]

First published in 1991 by Tsunami Editions.

Published by BookThug, 2009
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