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Sandwiching an excerpt from Penn(y) Kemp between two quotations from e.e. cummings when the oak begs permission of the birch to make an acorn June 8: I’m at a cocktail party of poets. I look down and realize I haven’t … Continue reading
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Artificial Intelligence and Taste
In the fall in Toronto there are a number of book sales where one can come across gems that one had always wanted to read but failed to pick up in some trip to the library. One such volume came … Continue reading
Euthermia
Marilyn Dumont. green girl dreams mountains There are two poems that are juxtaposed in memory after reading. The first is entitled “kindling” and amounts to a detailed description of the speaker’s mother’s handwriting and concludes that the writing was left … Continue reading
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Motions, Stones, Motions
A garland of ruins. Alan Marshfield The Electra Poems from “Sleep, Silhouette” from crotch to chin our sweaty bodies held and we arrived, gyrating breast to breast, at motion like the motions of a stone wherein we learned duration, beyond … Continue reading
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What is poetry?
Echoes of William Blake “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” The Marriage of Heaven and Hell bp nichol. The Martyrology Book II. oh fuck it’s raining stick my hand into the sea that’s poetry it’s a … Continue reading
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Pronoun Plenitude
bp nichol. The Martyrology Book II. you scream his name against the stars he does not answer i answer turn i answer turn away away play with the pronouns. map the you to a male interlocutor. map the i to … Continue reading
N-ation N-obody N-igger
First the note on the persona As “red nigger”, the lower-class counterpart to the “mulatto”, Shabine comes from the ranks of the ordinary man in Caribbean society. [Patricia Ismond, Abandoning Dead Metaphors: the Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott’s Poetry (Kingston, … Continue reading
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Slice Acceleration
In our neighbourhood there is a practice of leaving books and household articles at curbside, free for the picking. Some have turned this recycling practice into an art. The other day, I stumbled upon a pile of books which amounted … Continue reading
Cameo
Sappho appears in this poem “Divine Botany” about in part a residency at Casa Valparaiso. Sometimes, the speaker sees the ancient poet; sometimes she sees you, the beloved. I like how the homage plays up a different sort of composition, … Continue reading
Sparkling Slaps
Saeed Jones. Prelude to Bruise. There are two ways to parse this title. One to focus on the noun — the emergence of the mark of a wound (a bruise); the other to emphasize the verb and see the prelude … Continue reading
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