wendyssubway: An incredible conversation between Lisa Robertson...

An incredible conversation between Lisa Robertson and Aisha Sasha John reposted by Art & Education and entirely worth watching.

“Central to their conversation seems to be the character of poetry as a trace of a transmission of thought between bodies and across time, and the experience of reading always as a “beginner”—an experience which is heightened by a fumbling incapability before the opacity of a foreign-language text. This pleasure of difficulty, which changes the encounter with the text and helps to abolish the preconceptions that reading in one’s native language is wont to bring, is connected to notions of intimacy and the complex dynamics of power and identification in Pauline Réage’s canonic S&M novel The Story of O, which forms the topic of one of Robertson’s essays in Nilling, “Lastingness.” “

One of Lisa Robertson’s latest books Thinking Space was printed by the Organism for Poetic Research, which is launching the third issue of their journal PELT at WS this Friday at 8pm.