The Apothecary Author:Lisa Robertson The Apothecary is an extinct fern called a sentence unfurling in the mists. It is also Lisa Robertson s first book. Originally published in a small edition by Tsunami Editions in Vancouver in 1991, it quietly disappeared until it was re-released in 2001 on a need-to-know-basis. BookThug is now pleased to make this text available in a more perman... more »ent and pleasing edition. 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. 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 posts at the beginning of her career with the use of florid instruments.« less