Category Archives: Poetry

Of Positioning

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Francois Lachance

A segment preserved from a much larger piece now destroyed. belong blown OF ambiguity of: coming from as a messager of: belonging to longing to be desire as possesion of position deposit_i_on I like how the visual (the first “of” … Continue reading →

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For An Autistic Child

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Francois Lachance

These lines written for an autistic grandchild also convey a universal condition of behaviour issuing from pre-linguistic grounds. The gesture is simple. The child snatches a cracker biscuit, shaking off the smoked fish, and then smiles suddenly as if amused … Continue reading →

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Proximities

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Francois Lachance

I have spent months brooding over some four lines of poetry. I initially thought that the rhyme paint/faint was too strong until I realized that it was the sound within a line (the relation of “wilt” and “faint”) that was … Continue reading →

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Of “uv”

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Francois Lachance

The poetry of bill bissett is marked by non-standard spellings that make phonetic sense. This of course poses a bit of a challenge for machine processing. As observed by Christian Bök in “NICKEL LINOLEUM” (Published in Open Letter: bpNichol + … Continue reading →

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Interview Intervention

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Francois Lachance

It’s catch 22. The poem is about an interview with a social worker type and the strange bid to portray oneself as just crazy enough to get benefits without being too crazy to get locked up. But the reader is … Continue reading →

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Dark Stuff

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Francois Lachance

What can you see in tiny steaming cups of mocha? […] shade goes straight down, espresso dense with intent […] From “Shade” by Jan Zwicky collected in Songs for Relinquishing the Earth I like the arrangement here producing endwords — … Continue reading →

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Everything

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Francois Lachance

The poet warns us not to “expect a catalogue of grace” which makes it weirdly difficult to quote one bit that doesn’t run into the specific particulars of some observed realty. But here goes with a bit of jumping: Everything … Continue reading →

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Apprehension

Posted on June 17, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Briefly, alliteration abbreviates the breakless breath in a tug that permits the round: voice joining voice in a game that is more trip up than catch up. skipper shipper skirt shirt Following a long line of feeling recalling the rupture … Continue reading →

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No Quotation Recommendation

Posted on June 13, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Kuldip Gill’s posthumous Valley Sutra (Caitlin Press, 2009) reminds me of two other books of poetry. The first part of Valley Sutra is called “The Mill Town” and because of its focus on locale and people in a specific region … Continue reading →

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Spoiler

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Patricia Young has a lovely poem in An Auto-Erotic History of Swings which has the speaker in love with a mushroom collecting girl. The poem is filled with mycological references: morels, puffballs, hens of the woods, slippery jacks, cauliflower fungi. … Continue reading →

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