Canadian poet and essayist Lisa Robertson’s book Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture is a series of essays written in response to the work of contemporary artists by the pseudonymous Office between 1998 and 2003. As the Office for Soft Architecture she set out to witness, research, and document the vulnerable and passing surface conditions and sites of the city–fountains, money, weeds, scaffolds, shacks, and effects of pigment and time. In 1999 she held a visiting fellowship at University of Cambridge, where she wrote The Weather. Her other books of poetry include the neo-pastoral XEclogue, Debbie: An Epic, and The Men: A Lyric Book. A new collection is forthcoming from Coach House Press in spring 2009, and in 2010 University of California Press will publish R’s Boat. Robertson has held visiting positions at University of California at Berkeley, University of California at San Diego, and the American University of Paris, and currently teaches at California College of the Arts, where she is a Visiting Artist. Her current projects include collaborative video work, ongoing sound recording as The Perfume Recordist, and a translation of Michele Bernstein’s Situationist novel Tous le Chevaux du Roi for the London art-writing journal The Happy Hypocrite.