Bøger af Lola Lemire Tostevin

Jean-François Lyotard once wrote that the essay is postmodern inasmuch as it denies itself the solace of good form. At the Risk of Sounding is a wide-ranging collection of essays on writers such as Alice Munro, bpNichol and Antonin Artaud; on artists such as Barbara Caruso and Kim Ondaatje; and on fillm directors such as Margarethe von Trotta and Robert Lepage. The essays are personal, yet not "subjective." Their loyalty to the search for truth and the rigour of the writing have a strength of examination that is fearless, the hallmark of the essay form at its best. /// Lola Lemire Tostevin, poet, novelist and essayist, is presently preparing a biography of the artist, filmmaker, photographer and master gardener, Kim Ondaatje.

Spare, intimate poems situated at the threshold of the semiotic and the symbolic, the genotext and the phenotext.

Writing about the death of one's father or of close friends brings into sharp focus the essential relation between language and death as it was so beautifully expressed on the temple walls of Ancient Egypt. When one looks at the hieroglyphs through a contemporary eye, one sees - experiences - the spectacle of writing, the performance through which the bleakness of death and desert are transformed into something that continues to live, if only in the writer's mind... The journal entries of Cartouches were not written in the usual traditional diary form in which a day's events are recorded. They were, like the poems, "fashioned" as a process of writing through which the writer gives meaning to events that may (or may not) have happened. These events become hieroglyphs - iconic moments, if you will - framed within the pages of a book.