Category Archives: Poetry

Softly Walking and Waking Eros

Posted on May 22, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Throughout great stretches of Love Medicine and One Song the lover’s body is assimilated to the landscape and all the sensations of love-making become inscribed in a choreography of ceremony and participation in the entire world with all of one’s … Continue reading →

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Scratch Lit

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Francois Lachance

There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen Ralph Maud on obscurity… (“Recurrences” chapter in What Does Not Change: The Significance of Charles Olson’s “The Kingfishers”) Obscurities do not push one away from a … Continue reading →

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Out of Not Enough

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Francois Lachance

I invite you to consider regeneration as a waiting on, not a waiting for. New Directions reprinted Muriel Rukeyser‘s Elegies which first appeared in a limited (300 copies) edition in 1949. In their introduction to the reprinting, Jan Heller Levi … Continue reading →

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Hurry of the Unharried

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Francois Lachance

The context is very specific to a drive through a given landscape but the image can be applied to our being in the world as A hurry through which known and strange things pass The line speaks to me of … Continue reading →

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Meat: Horrid & Otherwise

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Francois Lachance

In the middle of the anthology edited by Mark Strand [The Golden Ecco Anthology: 100 Great Poems of the English Language] there is Melville’s “The Maldive Shark” which has striking ending epithet for the maritime beast: Pale ravener of horrible … Continue reading →

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What Pops Up Pops Out

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Francois Lachance

The copy in Robarts Library was presented by Jearld Moldenhauer. Robert Glück. Family Poems. “The Body” (1979) Some of us went on to wear our erections like jewelry and others of us didn’t. An unusual carrot — purple with two … Continue reading →

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Smut is Also a Word for Fungus, I Remember

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Yi Yŏn-ju “Dusk in Winter” Life’s end, does anyone really live beyond it? Let’s start again. Power of filthy memories. Collected in Anxiety of Words: Contemporary Poetry by Korean Women Ch’oe Sŭng-ja, Kim Hyesoon and Yi Yŏn-ju translated by Don … Continue reading →

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Uni Ennui

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Who could get bored with sea urchin? Not anyone in our household. The phrase combining Japanese (uni) and French (ennui) only came up as a suggested substitution game for the caterpillarbutterfly duo so prominent in this third section of Regarding … Continue reading →

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Never Mind Cabin Fever

Posted on April 29, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Hut. In The Albertine Workout Anne Carson strings us along. In appendix 33 (a) there is an explanation of what purports to be the difference between metaphor and metonymy. Since this question has arisen, here’s the difference: in a group … Continue reading →

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Caress

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Robert Glück. Andy with drawings by Edward Aulerich. San Francisco, Panjandrum Press, 1973. The intaken breath as the palm sweeps From armpit to thigh Your clear body hangs like an amulet around a certain lucky neck. This is a picture … Continue reading →

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