{"product_id":"bella-li-lost-lake","title":"Bella Li, Lost Lake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Lost Lake\u003c\/em\u003e is a lush hybrid of prose poetry, collage and photography, forming what is one of the most beautifully produced poetry titles of recent times. Expansive and imaginative, Li challenges the possibilities of the medium; \u003cem\u003eLost Lake \u003c\/em\u003eis an adventure in form, where the book’s design is as poetic as the text it contains. A poetic travelogue of sorts, the book journeys constantly between the poetic and the visual in a narrative that takes on and repurposes the tropes of colonial exploration in order to tell a different, multi-valent story. There are funfairs, hothouses, and green houses. There are lost lakes. Li’s prose poems bely their slick forms; the voice is assured and sophisticated, even though many sentences are charged fragments from her source texts. Hovering underneath text and image alike is a devotion to what has been lost, to its recovery through expansion into the surreal. Positioned at the interstices of the subliminal and the known, the work reveals absences in time and space that soon we long to inhabit.' (From the QLD Prize judges' report)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing on from the groundbreaking \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e, Li's second collection \u003cem\u003eLost Lake\u003c\/em\u003e ups the ante, taking the reader and literature alike into new reaches and realms of the imagination. \u003cem\u003eLost Lake\u003c\/em\u003e, which exhibits Li’s distinctive use of text and image, consists of eight extended sequences of poetry, collage and photography, drawing on sources ranging from Dante’s \u003cem\u003eInferno \u003c\/em\u003eand Steve Reich’s \u003cem\u003eDifferent Trains\u003c\/em\u003e, to \u003cem\u003eWoman's Day \u003c\/em\u003emagazines and the archives of artist and autodidact Joseph Cornell. Through the eight sequences of \u003cem\u003eLost Lake\u003c\/em\u003e, geography and music, history and architecture, works of art and literature, encounter each other in striking and unexpected ways, generating new hybrid objects. \u003cem\u003eLost Lake \u003c\/em\u003edisassembles boundaries and challenges expectations of what a work of literature can be—its alchemy blooms in the spaces between eras, genres and forms. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBella Li\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/bella-li-argosy\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/bella-li-argosy\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArgosy\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2017), which won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry and the Kenneth Slessor Prize, and was highly commended in the Anne Elder Award and commended in the Wesley Michel Wright Prize; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/facebook\/products\/bella-li-lost-lake?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=ab97b744c\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/facebook\/products\/bella-li-lost-lake?_pos=1\u0026amp;_sid=ab97b744c\u0026amp;_ss=r\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLost Lake \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2018), shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award; and \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/new-releases\/products\/bella-li-theory-of-colours\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/new-releases\/products\/bella-li-theory-of-colours\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTheory of Colours\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Vagabond Press, 2021), shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize and joint winner of the Australian Book Design Association award for Best Designed Independent Book. Her first work \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/rare-object-series\/products\/bella-li-maps-cargo?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=70716b331\u0026amp;_ss=r\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/rare-object-series\/products\/bella-li-maps-cargo?_pos=3\u0026amp;_sid=70716b331\u0026amp;_ss=r\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaps, Cargo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e appeared as part of the Rare Object Series. Her poetry, artwork, short fiction, essays, and reviews, have been published widely, including in the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOverland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGoing Down Swinging\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeril\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRabbit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiminal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArchives of American Art Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. Recent work can be found in \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeanjin \u003c\/i\u003e(Winter 2021), \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave, 2021),\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt Writing in Crisis \u003c\/i\u003e(Sternberg, 2021).\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eShe holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, and is the associate publisher at Cordite Books and the managing editor at Scribe Publications. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBella Li, \u003cem\u003eLost Lake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRRP $35.00 \u003cbr\u003eApril 2018. 176pp. PB. 140mm x 210mm. 54 colour images.\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-925735-18-5 \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/ftjx\/index.html\" seamless=\"seamless\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/files\/aca_logo_horizontal_large_rgb-543227504d3b3_medium.jpg?v=1501372188\"\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47241668932,"sku":"","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Lost_Lake.jpg?v=1521586309","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/es\/products\/bella-li-lost-lake","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}