Clatter the Pigeons on the Ridgepole Fluff: On Lisa Robertson's The Men
Series curated by Adra Raine, 2018
Essay and audio on Lisa Robertson's The Men
The Operating System Press, Brooklyn
The reigning didacticism of the give!-show! ministries demands that language be produced like cherry passion Tic Tacs on the tick-tock of the bandmaster. Reading Lisa Robertson opened a language beyond the insensible: resonant gestures and movements that flutter mutinous languages and intimacies. The Men, in particular, painted the virtuosic green, shrouded the give!-show! in opal glance, deboned the edictal through skeletal aeration. Robertson opens up a space of listening, and also of laughing at and unravelling rigidities.
Clatter the Pigeons on the Ridgepole Fluff is a work on the influence of Lisa Robertson. It was published in a series curated by Adra Raine in conjunction with the release of Raine’s Want-Catcher (The Operating System Press, 2018).
[audio: Clatter the Pigeons on the Ridgepole Fluff, 4:08]