Category Archives: Poetry

Mastectomy

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Phil Hall Why I Haven’t Written “One Breast” Opening stanza and closing stanza. Amazons had them removed like this. But they chose to. […] The enemy has provided you with room for a weapon. If we can find one. The … Continue reading →

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After the Chinese

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Choices. A.C. Graham, Introduction to Poems of the Late T’ang Because of this combination of phonetic poverty and graphic wealth the system of meanings and associations touched off by a Chinese word inheres not in its sound structure but in … Continue reading →

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Backwards into E-evidence

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Francois Lachance

The poet brings us through manipulation of the stuff of language to consider our investments. In particular, to meditate upon the meaning of evidence. Suffice it to say that his discourse on e-gap turns towards the end on agape … … Continue reading →

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Frequenting the Fragment

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Amy Vladeck Heinrich notes in Fragments of Rainbows: The Life and Poetry of Saitō Mokichi 1882-1953 that in one specific instance “The verb ‘echoing’ is added to the translation because English is not as comfortable with sentence fragments and their … Continue reading →

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Chopping and Tossing

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Mollie Katzen. The Enchanted Broccoli Forest “Improvisation Notes” Cooking is a very personal statement, whether you follow a recipe, vary it, or invent your own altogether. The same recipe made by different people on different days and in different kitchens … Continue reading →

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Diuretic Diectics

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Thoughts on Garry Thomas Morse Streams LINEbooks, 2007. There is a lot of coffee consumed in this book of prose poems. Each is a cup. Why you may ask that these textual units should be considered as a cup: some … Continue reading →

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Filiation, Forebears, Forgers

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Francois Lachance

1970s. It was a time of searching for ancestors. (Roots – Alex Haley). “A literary ancestry long denied” D.D.C. [Douglas] Chambers reviewed three books of poetry: Orgasms of Light: The Gay Sunshine Anthology edited by Winston Leyland, The Dead Slave … Continue reading →

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The Bite of Momordica charantia

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Francois Lachance

There is a lyrical moment in a poem that reports the mashing of names and the misnaming of persons. This is not it: it happens all the time. it’s in the name. it’s in the face. orientals so hard to … Continue reading →

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Rendering the Mellifluous

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Judy Grahn had us reaching for the highest apple. But this picker did not at first notice this proverb preserved by Tryphon quoting the Lesbian poet until taking note of its placement by Stanley Lombardo (2002) who sets it as … Continue reading →

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Celebrated in Poetry and Free to Cerebrate

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Clerihew – a biographical bit of fun that rhymes on the run. I like how this one fits into the flow of prose and contributes to the picture of the genius free to roam. With the backing of John Maynard … Continue reading →

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