Category Archives: Poetry

Disappearing Act

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Got you covered. All day long wearing a hat that wasn’t on my head. Jack Kerouac American Haikus And so for day 1806 23.11.2011

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Dust Washed

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Edward Thomas has a keen observant eye. This is the ending of “Tall Nettles” This corner of the farmyard I like most: As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except … Continue reading →

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Resequencing

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Debbie Strange’s tanka appeared in Literary Review of Canada and are also accessible on the blog Warp and Weft – Images and Words http://debbiemstrange.blogspot.ca/2016/11/the-literary-review-of-canada-november.html Vanishing Point the last grain elevator demolished our little town sinks further into dust we leave … Continue reading →

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Subduing the Sofa

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Given the handsome design on the cover this is one I would love to encounter while unpacking my library as Walter Benjamin does I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not … Continue reading →

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Repackaging

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Jeff Derksen segment from “Interface” in Dwell (1993) Almost a non sequitur. The target is neoliberal globalism. I bought your book for a quarter. My body’s attached to my leg, to a genetic history, to a parallel sentence structure stretching … Continue reading →

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At the Core of Apple: More “Apple”

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Francois Lachance

In reading Phyllis Webb Naked Poems (1965) I am at ease imagining a pair of lesbian lovers in the opening sequences. I take my cue from assuming that the poem’s voice is like that of the author female and that … Continue reading →

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D E B B I E

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Excerpts from Lisa Robertson’s statement in The New Long Poem Anthology Second Edition edited by Sharon Thesen. Writing Debbie, I researched the linguistic pressures of epic genre on the internal structures of subjectivity, gender, history, and memory. […] In Debbie, … Continue reading →

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Dogmas and Catechisms

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Philip Levine in A Walk With Tom Jefferson has a pair of poems that resemble the pairing of Milton’s Il Penseroso and L’Allegro. They are a dog poem about karma and suitably entitled “Dog Poem”. The cat poem can be … Continue reading →

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The Island: Name Written but Unpronounced

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Speaking of reading “Sirocco”… In none of the recordings of Robert Penn Warren that I have heard (from MIT’s Vault and from the Caedmon Poetry Collection) does the poet pronounce the name of the island he has written in his … Continue reading →

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Maturely Premature

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Hokusai‘s jisei (death poem) has been set to music by Karl Jenkins in his Requiem. hitodama de / yuku kisanji ya / natsa no hara now as a spirit / I shall roam / the summer fields Though my demise … Continue reading →

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