Category Archives: Booklore

Entries and posts that relate to the creation or consumption of books

The Age of Reading

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Francois Lachance

I love the ecological turn of mind. And in the recapitulation the earthworms are left behind. And in so being taken on an aura of their own. A nonmaterial definition of the book comes hand in hand, it seems to … Continue reading →

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T Fused to R

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Francois Lachance

A specimen book from Gaspereau Press. Pure genius in how Poety and Poery swim out of sight of Poetry. And so for day 997 05.09.2009

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Colophon Quibbles

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Francois Lachance

This reads as a parody by its excess and by the fact that it’s the colophon to a work of poems infused with the jargon of the oil patch. Someone at the Coach House Press was having fun with Mathew … Continue reading →

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Printing Out and Slowing Down

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Marie-Laure Ryan on reading Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce. During my first pass through Twelve Blue I was so preoccupied with restoring a semblance of order in its informational chaos that I hardly took the time to slow down and … Continue reading →

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Paying the Piper

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Francois Lachance

The political cartoonist Terry Mosher (Aislin) in a short Globe & Mail piece remembering May Cutler publisher of the children’s imprint Tundra. This being brand new territory for me, […] I would run these drawings by my own children and … Continue reading →

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Recalling Sam The Record Man Spins

Posted on July 4, 2009 by Francois Lachance

TOK: Writing the New Toronto, Book 7 presented by Diaspora Dialogues was designed by The Office of Gilbert Li whose page layout (lots of white space at the bottom and bunching of type at the top) took a little getting … Continue reading →

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Landscape and Portrait

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Remus and Romulus This was torn out of a larger sequence and as I mused in Portrait and Landscape the orientation of the lay out sometimes affects the texture of the reception. Here in blocks along the vertical: howl radiating … Continue reading →

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Circle of Chairs

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Francois Lachance

The 2004 edition (A Marian Wood Book published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons) has on the cover a sketch of six different chairs in arranged in a semicircle. The same drawing is reproduced on the title page and each of the … Continue reading →

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White

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Francois Lachance

A lingering question about the production of white paper in sixteenth century England made me very attentive to the following description of vellum production in an earlier period. This description is from Stephen Greenblatt The Swerve: How the World Became … Continue reading →

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Specimen Collector

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Bathtubs and computers don’t mix and e-books would not catch on. It’s a line of defense we hear less and less given the new generation of specialized screen readers for e-books. But there are some uses still left for the … Continue reading →

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