Category Archives: Poetry

Unravelling

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Michele Leggott Milk & Honey “festival junction” 6 string of events string of memories string I bring into the labyrinth I like how the poet brings the reader in bit by bit until resting on the present tense we are … Continue reading →

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Story and Self and State

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Richard Ronan in the introduction to his collection of poems Narratives from America opens with the observation: A story houses us. Often more utterly than does our flesh. But this is not left at the level of the individual, the … Continue reading →

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A Sort of Onomatopoeia

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Francois Lachance

To be taken away When I went out In the Spring meadows To gather violets I enjoyed myself So much that I stayed all night. Akahito translated by Kenneth Rexroth in One Hundred Poems from the Japanese There is a … Continue reading →

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Random Pairing

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Seduced by its alliteration on the sound of “s” we here lay down the last line of “Sherbourne Morning” by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco in The Tough Romance sun above them spins halos for angels gone beserk Coupling this selection … Continue reading →

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Homophonica

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Michele Leggott Milk & Honey “tourbillon 1” I am arrested by a line and a reduplication of sound across meaning almost the lobe of l’aube a sliver of morning light comes to mind and the “lobe” becomes breast-like almost the … Continue reading →

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Ecce Ecco

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Look here! I was intrigued by the “half” anaphora in these opening lines by Pier Giorgio Di Cicco. Love breaks where no light shines, this is the dark heaven; the real thumbnail; the rain of sadness Just itching to re-imagine … Continue reading →

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how sweetly flows that liquefaction

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Michael Lavers from The Burden of Humans in New Ohio Review https://www.ohio.edu/nor/a/content/pdfs/lavers.pdf The frost tattoos its sermon on the rose, but in a language only you can read; Calls to mind poems by Lorna Crozier in The Garden Going On … Continue reading →

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What is a Godlfish?

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Pier Giorgio Di Cicco “Aunt Margaret” from The Tough Romance 1979 rpt Guernica Editions, 1990 […] There was a marshy patch behind her house. When Sundays brought the family to her rooms, I’d hunt the puddled grass for frogs and … Continue reading →

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Pity the Partitions

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Juxtaposing Emily Dickinson with Jean Genet’s Un chant d’amour and its famous exchange of smoke. I plucked at our Partition As One should pry the Walls — Between Himself — and Horror’s Twin — Within Opposing Cells — I almost … Continue reading →

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Sparrow Renewal

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Francois Lachance

This is the opening which could suffice unto itself — the rest is all there in the intimation of a new season. Catching winter in their carved nostrils the traitor birds have deserted us, leaving only the dullest brown sparrows … Continue reading →

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