Category Archives: Poetry

Mirror Poems

Posted on March 29, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Linda Bierds “Bone Cockerel: Norman Cross Prisoner-of-War Camp, England” The Hardy Tree In Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid there is one poem in a style developed by Ondaatje as he says in the Afterword to the … Continue reading →

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Captivated

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Linda Bierds “The Bird Trap” The Hardy Tree A poem in part an ekphrasis on a painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger And under their laughter and guttural chirrups lies nothing but the scrape of skates and the dull chatter … Continue reading →

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The Cup Runneth Over

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Charles Bernstein “The swerve of verse: Lucretius’ ‘Of Things’ Nature’ and the necessity of poetic form” https://jacket2.org/commentary/lucretius Lucretius’s own explanation for choosing verse is that it is the spoonful of sugar that makes the truth of the real go down: … Continue reading →

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Delirious Othering Details

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Critics have noted the play in Nicole Brossard’s Amantes of délire and de lire. JE N’ARRÊTE PAS DE LIRE EN CE JUIN DES AMANTES There is an echo elsewhere in Amantes in a quotation from Italian in “ma continent” “Non … Continue reading →

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To Be There

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Chris Banks “Fossil” The Cloud Versus Grand Unification Theory To match in words the impression […] to be that permanent, and still not there. A sort of aspiration. To be like “the impression / some extinct creature / left in … Continue reading →

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surrender “to” to avoid surrender “of”

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Emily Dickinson I was first attracted by this evocation of a decisive moment in the English-French struggle over Canada: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, 1759 … The similarity of the general’s responses to death is belied by the … Continue reading →

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Road Back to Semantics

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Umberto Eco “Porta: Rhythm and The Poetic List” translated by Samuel Fleck in Piercing the Page [A formulation he repeats from the Postcript to The Name of the Rose] I said that signifiers engender a thought and not that a … Continue reading →

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Daughter of the Dust

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Crystal Williams “For the Woman Who Didn’t Know My Name” Kin Like a grain of dirt a letter rises In some old men there is a softness in voice a hint of dust y Alabama a bit of grit And … Continue reading →

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Prints

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Gathered from different renga, displaced in time and space and yet united between the same covers. Alison Strumberger and Gillian Sze Redrafting Winter from “A Grip on the Stars” Reflected by snow the sky cradles my impressions, a new footprint … Continue reading →

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High Voltage Circuits

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Because you as reader supply the link, it’s more devastating. Two examples, though not sonnets, exhibiting the volta. 26 Each week   on network television   hundreds of terrorist attacks   are thwarted   by members   of the Actors Guild. Perhaps they could visit … Continue reading →

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