{"product_id":"bella-li-argosy-hardback-signed-and-numbered-limited-edition","title":"Bella Li, Argosy (Limited hardback edition of 50 signed and numbered copies)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited hardback edition of 50 copies signed and numbered by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWINNER of the \u003cstrong\u003eVictorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER of the \u003cstrong\u003eNSW Premier's Literary Awards 2018 (Poetry).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHighly commended in the \u003cstrong\u003eAnne Elder Poetry Award 2017.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCommended in \u003c\/span\u003ethe\u003cstrong\u003e Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis innovative full-length collection, drawing inspiration from the surrealist collage novels of Max Ernst, is an arresting and utterly unique assemblage of poetry, collage and photography. In two parts, the book engages with themes of travel and exploration, language and loss, identity and originality, as well as the relationship between poetry and other disciplines: the visual arts, history, literature and film. \u003cspan\u003ePolyglot in sensibility and content, and daring in construction, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArgosy \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003edefies categorisation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Grounded firmly in Australian contemporary poetic practice, the book is also outward-looking in its approach to form and content; it constitutes a landmark in both local and international poetics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/online.anyflip.com\/wuapt\/kwds\/index.html\" style=\"width: 550px; height: 350px;\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"seamless\" frameborder=\"0\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Bella Li’s \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e is a stunning hybrid artefact, textually and visually. Through \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e, Li provokes the reader on the value of the object, of \u003cem\u003ethe book\u003c\/em\u003e. This is a collection whose very reality insists on the necessity of print – it dwells within the materiality of form, and is a recognition of poetry as art and art as poetry. \u003cem\u003eArgosy’\u003c\/em\u003es exquisite writing leads the reader through collages, prose poetry and photography, the meanings of which unfold through their juxtapostions – poetic gaps that spur haunting, dreamlike sequences. This is a collection of journeys and intertextual dialogues – between poems and works, and with culture and history.' Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2018 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wheelercentre.com\/projects\/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2018\/argosy\"\u003ejudges' report.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'The powerful and surprising impact of the book made \u003cem\u003eArgosy \u003c\/em\u003ea clear winner. Bella Li’s sophisticated handling of language, form, time and image offers a remarkable synthesis of European surrealism and an antipodean sensibility, via a Chinese–Australian history. This important contribution to Australian poetic imagination and traditions doubles as a Southern Hemisphere rewriting and re-imaging of world traditions.' NSW Premier's Award (Poetry) \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.sl.nsw.gov.au\/argosy-bella-li\"\u003ejudges' report\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Bella Li's \u003c\/span\u003eis a cerebral, yet playful collection broadly presented in two movements. Li interrogates art, history, geography, film, philosophy, and language through the muscular form of the prose poem, juxtaposed with original photography and collage. \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e is at once immediate and surreal, and self-reflexively leads us to question our received knowledge of the world, while engaging with and commenting on aesthetic traditions practised by experimental artists such as Joseph Cornell. As an artefact, the book is a singularly beautiful object that pushes the boundaries of what narrative, poetic meaning, and indeed, a collection of poetry might be.' Anne Elder Award 2017 judges' report\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Li is a cartographer of a different kind. Her map-making is as aesthetic as it is topographic, plotting fragmented histories, horizons and the spectral lands of memory and dream.’ Tamryn Bennett, \u003ci\u003eMascara Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The poems from Bella Li’s \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e are drawn from an exquisite livre composé (inspired by the famous collage novels of the Surrealist painter Max Ernst), in which dense series of prose poems are set against rectified historical images of an absorbing strangeness. Near-hallucinatory visions are generated from Li’s beautifully-machinated encounters of character and image.' Judges comments for the The Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'...a new wild object, a declaration about how poetry can look and be.' Bella Li's \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Elena Gomez in \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/jacket2.org\/commentary\/sea-shells-and-torsos\"\u003eJacket2\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e'...lingering, painstaking, experimental and damn good in a risky and ambitious multimodal form.' \u003cspan\u003eBella Li's \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Alison Whittaker in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/overland.org.au\/2017\/07\/june-in-poetry\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/overland.org.au\/2017\/07\/june-in-poetry\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOverland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e'For all that \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e is a work that draws upon many texts, Li occupies distinctively original imaginative spaces within her writing. Familiarity with the specific novels and films to which she refers can work in concert with her writing, but it is equally possible to fall into this work without seeking each and every intertextual link. The gestures through which Li examines the worlds of her characters create a sustained voice and vision.' \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBella Li's \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Kate Middleton in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/middleton-li\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/cordite.org.au\/reviews\/middleton-li\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCordite\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'There's a wonderful disharmony to these poems: they radiate wonder and doom at the same time.' \u003cspan\u003eBella Li's \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e reviewed by Ellen Cregan in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.readings.com.au\/review\/argosy-by-bella-li?utm_source=Readings+e-news\u0026amp;utm_campaign=289b1f9bd2-6+Australian+novels+you+should+be+reading\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_term=0_3fa4f126ca-289b1f9bd2-81255777\u0026amp;mc_cid=289b1f9bd2\u0026amp;mc_eid=aec475e071\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.readings.com.au\/review\/argosy-by-bella-li?utm_source=Readings+e-news\u0026amp;utm_campaign=289b1f9bd2-6+Australian+novels+you+should+be+reading\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_term=0_3fa4f126ca-289b1f9bd2-81255777\u0026amp;mc_cid=289b1f9bd2\u0026amp;mc_eid=aec475e071\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eReadings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful coming together of poetry, visual art, history, and cartography, emergent from the journals of La Pérouse, and informed by collage novels of Max Ernst. The work is of such historical scope, yet always turns back onto this sense of ephemerality, of searching for something that is invisible.' \u003cspan\u003eConversation between Bella Li and Mindy Gill on \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/peril.com.au\/topics\/in-the-spirit-of-disappearance-interview-with-bella-li\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/peril.com.au\/topics\/in-the-spirit-of-disappearance-interview-with-bella-li\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeril\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBella Li\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/bella-li-argosy\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/products\/bella-li-argosy\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" 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\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" 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\"\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 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" 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\"\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 \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBella Li, \u003cem\u003eArgosy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRRP $80.00\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e180pp. 229mm x 152mm. 57 colour images. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited edition of 50 hardback copies signed and numbered by the author, printed on Wood-Free 120GSM paper, thread-sewn between boards, with dust jacket.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-922181-96-1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":14535972683828,"sku":"","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/IMG_1397.JPG?v=1552787165","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/ko\/products\/bella-li-argosy-hardback-signed-and-numbered-limited-edition","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}