- This event has passed.
Lisa Robertson at Point Reyes Books
March 16, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
Poet Lisa Robertson visits Point Reyes to discuss her debut novel, The Baudelaire Fractal.
About The Baudelaire Fractal
One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. In her bemusement the hotel becomes every cheap room she ever stayed in during her youthful perambulations in 1980s Paris … This is the legend of a she-dandy’s life. Part magical realism, part feminist ars poetica, part history of tailoring, part bibliophilic anthem, part love affair with nineteenth-century painting, The Baudelaire Fractal is poet and art writer Lisa Robertson’s first novel.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s already a classic.” – Anne Boyer
“Robertson’s debut novel, for those interested in the possibilities of fiction, is not to be missed.” – Publishers Weekly
“A new Lisa Robertson book is both a public event and a private kind of bacchanal.” – Los Angeles Review of Books.
About Lisa Robertson
Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet and essayist currently living in France. Born in Toronto in 1961, she was a longtime resident of Vancouver, where in the early 90s she began writing, publishing and collaborating in a community of artists and poets that included Artspeak Gallery and The Kootenay School of Writing. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in NY awarded her the inaugural CD Wright Award in Poetry. She has taught at Cambridge University, Princeton, UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and American University of Paris, as well as holding research and residency positions at institutions across Canada, the US, and Europe.