Category Archives: Poetry

Frag Meant Meat

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Francois Lachance

http://www.bpnichol.ca/archive/audio/not-what-siren-sang-what-frag-ment Not What the Siren Sang But What the Frag Ment (for Margaret Alison) From the 7 ¼ floppy record borders included in the box bp, published in February 1967 by Coach House Press (Toronto, Ontario). Appeared in Konfessions of … Continue reading →

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Implosion

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Francois Lachance

bill bissett what fuckan theory: a study uv language so yu dont need th sentence yu dont need correct spelling yu dont need correct grammar yu dont need th margin yu dont need regulation use of capital nd low case … Continue reading →

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Bivalve Lingualism

Posted on April 27, 2013 by Francois Lachance

The sybil of unreadability outrun by f(r)iction… From Picture Theory by Nicole Brossard La fiction déjoue alors l’illysybilité, dans le sens où elle insinue toujours quelque chose de plus qui te force à imaginer, à dédoubler. A y revenir. Translation … Continue reading →

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Applied Imagination and Reason

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Francois Lachance

In the Lab with the Poets Once upon a time poetry and science were one, and its name was Magic. Magic, for our earliest ancestors, was the most effective way of understanding nature and their fellow-men, and of gaining power … Continue reading →

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Water and Oats: Bilingual Letters

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Nicole Brossard A Tilt in the Wondering Vallum Chapbook Series No. 15 at this point language shifts as we read persil brebis and ontology for I was not refraining myself about the water needed in beauty la folle avoine des … Continue reading →

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Men’s Bodies Explored By Men

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Francois Lachance

The golden ending set in media res … Andrew McMillan physical “urination” you wake to the sound of stream into bowl and go to hug the naked body stood with its back to you     and kiss the neck and taste the … Continue reading →

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Pregnant Pause

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Andrew McMillan “Jocasta” playtime the ending… and so I’ve learnt to trust only what I have in this one small room     this square of light this handful of neck     this noose     this table this one short step It’s the combination of line breaks, … Continue reading →

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Floppy Failure

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Jack Prelutsky “I Think My Computer Is Crazy” A Pizza the Size of the Sun Something inside my computer is buzzing like billions of bees, even my mouse is affected, it seems to be begging for cheese. I guess I … Continue reading →

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Topsy Turvey

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Jack Prelutsky “I’m Drifting Through Negative Space” A Pizza the Size of the Sun I toss my ephemeral ball agains an impalpable wall. It bounces and lands in my vanishing hands— recent planetary inventories show more leopard-print blouses than leopards … Continue reading →

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Timing and Tactility

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Arriving at hint of decadence, the notion is retrospective, restive. What captured me was the line-end adjective modifying two nouns. the hour and the civilization late and so we will smile as if engrossed the drowsy language between cortex and … Continue reading →

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