The Weather Author:Lisa Robertson Light and air, greenery and earth take on unaccustomed qualities in the poet's deft hand in this new long (80 pages) poem from Governor General's Award finalist Robertson. Seven sections - "Sunday" to "Saturday," alternating prose and verse, repattern quotidian conversations and atmospheres: "bright and fresh," "brisk and west," "streaky and mas... more »sed," January to December. A constellation of radical women is invoked to pass, elegiac, among clouds: Violette Leduc, Patty Hearst, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olympe de Gouges, Shulamith Firestone, Ti-grace Atkinson. This is exhilarating poetry, wild and troubled, that seamlessly integrates lived experience with the play of the mind. Sure to entrance.« less