Category Archives: Poetry

Feeding Fashion

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Another food poem in addition to the title-bearing poem in the collection by Jack Prelutsky A Pizza the Size of the Sun is the charming two stanza agricultural myth “Spaghetti Seeds” which concludes thusly I planted them year ago . … Continue reading →

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Recuperating a Lost World

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Francois Lachance

It’s an abecedarian book filled with delightful acrostics. My favourite is the opening one with its anaphoric elements that build to an acknowledgement of the generous amplitude of the small. As flake is to blizzard, as C […] O […] … Continue reading →

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Fricatelle Cyprin

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Nicole Brossard Sous la langue Under Tongue Fricatelle ruisselle essentielle aime-t-elle le long de son corps la morsure, le bruit des vagues, aime-t-elle l’état du monde dans la flambée des chairs pendant que les secondes s’écoulent cyprine, lutine, marines. In … Continue reading →

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The Cut and the Cooked

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Jane Byers Steeling Effects “Starfruit” The extended comparison at the end of this poem stretches out a food metaphor into a celebration of the plain. Mashed potatoes and turnip are nutrient poor from the endless boil but love doesn’t leach. … Continue reading →

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All Around Us

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Francois Lachance

I cannot celebrate enough Jane Byers impeccable justesse in the endings to the poems in the Keen sequence in Acquired Community. Look at how poignant and yet defiant the ending of the last poem in the sequence, “Elegy”, is But … Continue reading →

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Dance Craze Blaze

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Elsewhere I have examined the closing scene of Queer as Folk in terms of the ongoing dance of the community. Here I cite Michael Lynch from These Waves of Dying Friends, the fifth section of “Sand” My friends who rarely … Continue reading →

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Invasion of the Peacemakers

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Francois Lachance

“wants” is on its first appearance a verb, on its subsequent appearance a possible noun indicating a plurality of desires until enjambement forces it back to singular verb status — still an echo resides of wanting to end wants — … Continue reading →

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Border Patterns

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Pretext, a quotation from Ronald Johnson A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees “Four Orphic Poems & A Song” […] IV […] ‘Patterns are temporary boundaries’, the moving countries where nothing is seen in isolation. […] Intertext, some source … Continue reading →

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Solar Path Tree Ring

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Ronald Johnson The Shrubberies slice, read rings of time ourselves slight circlet clamped immemorial bark growing outward into dark set ecliptic embowered rooted embroidered light Note “ecliptic” appears in several instances throughout The Shrubberies. Notably: “welcome, precise ecliptic eye”. And … Continue reading →

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Gravity Levity

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Ronald Johnson A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees “Four Orphic Poems & A Song” Newton — it is said — did not show the cause of an apple falling, only the similitude between the apple & the stars. … Continue reading →

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