Category Archives: Poetry

Global Joke

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Play on an expression figée nets an interesting double take. GAME VS. REAL There are typos all over the word. Jason Christie. Canada Post. (Snare Books, 2006) And so for day 1454 06.12.2010

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Deictic Delights

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Francois Lachance

It’s a typographic joy with all its whitespace and judicious mix of fonts. Sparrow 66 Black Sparrow Press, March 1978 It features a poem by Gerard Malanga “This Will Kill That”. As with many paratextual matters, not sure if the … Continue reading →

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Moon Sun Owl Crowing

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Avital Ronell first brought this Wordsworth poem to my attention in a conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle (see Fighting Theory]. [T]his corrosive “thing” that was not legible before and then abruptly emerges or is provoked out of its hiding place. Wordsworth’s … Continue reading →

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after life traces

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Four Ages of Man: The Classical Myths by Jay Macpherson is a tour through Greek and Roman mythology for high school students. The last chapter is devoted to “The Passing and Afterlife of the Gods” and ends thus — almost … Continue reading →

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Shrapnel

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Francois Lachance

An Exploded Sestina Myrmurs by Shannon Maguire Post-plague reading, reassembling the Myrmidons — a selection of ant troops/tropes winter is a virus that July hosts in her blue moon software jostling syllables not like not at all like collagelision each … Continue reading →

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Law

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Robert Duncan in an interview with Ekbert Faas (Towards A new American Poetics: Essays and Interviews) is talking about his teaching at Black Mountain College and relates this little tale In response to the question “What do you mean by … Continue reading →

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Cancellations and Blanks

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Francois Lachance

The paratext indicates a “scrapbook” but some of the entries/poems would indicate a “diary”. Found by Souvankham Thammavongsa. Observe in the corner of the cover a simple diagonal line, almost decorative. But it is very declarative. It “takes out the … Continue reading →

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Lucent Lunacies

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Francois Lachance

At the heart of stasis is repetition. À l’image-temps. A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs […] A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs This is what having seen the loop of … Continue reading →

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Dream Source, Dream Process

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Francois Lachance

From Richard Howard, “Oracles” in No Traveller.        but who knows how such décor, queer as it is, affects us? Between        ”it came to me in a dream” and “I dreamed” lie ages of the world,        but which is truer: spirits- … Continue reading →

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Cardio Amplification

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Helen Guri Microphone Lessons for Poets Illustrated by Cara Guri Book Thug They look ordinary and are — the seagulls of the stage, the squirrels of the lectern. If a poetic mode, the male nostalgic. Please do not feed them … Continue reading →

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