Category Archives: Poetry

Detritus

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Reprise from Touch by Gabriel Josipovici: For it is never possible to tell in advance where the boundaries will be or even if they exist. Which resonates nicely with this opening line from “The Surprises of the Superhuman” by Wallace … Continue reading →

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Found Poem

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Interesting how adding line breaks assists the assimilation of information. We search for a link between who we are and what we have made, between who we are and what we might create, between who we are and what, through … Continue reading →

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Slake

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Francois Lachance

I like this bit from “Places of Memory” by D.G. Jones appearing in Phrases from Orpheus (1967). Not far is a barn And a pump where the water comes splashing Over the boards The spirit is thirsty, drinks When we … Continue reading →

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Again After Basho

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Francois Lachance

My earlier glonk noise on Basho’s famous frog-pond poem has some twins composed in 2001 and here reproduced for your aural pleasure: I pond, old old pond frog leaping in in ripple sound II rippling sounds from frog splash a … Continue reading →

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Landscape and Portrait

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Remus and Romulus This was torn out of a larger sequence and as I mused in Portrait and Landscape the orientation of the lay out sometimes affects the texture of the reception. Here in blocks along the vertical: howl radiating … Continue reading →

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Beauty Said Sublime Rehearsed

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Francois Lachance

This stanza from a poem in Alicia Ostriker’s The Book of Seventy is shaped like what it is about: it is a thing of beauty. we have almost escaped the rule of reason we have almost returned to the rule … Continue reading →

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Manual Landscapes

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Some time in October 2003 I copied out an excerpt from the poem “Rust” by one Michael Cumming turns out that thanks to modern search engines I am able to correctly identify the poet as Newfoundlander Michael Crummey and the … Continue reading →

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Frames

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Frame One Salman Rushdie in Imaginary Homelands. Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 writes about a book of images by John Bishton and John Reardon called Home Front. He makes this point: But the significance of such a photographic essay as Home … Continue reading →

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Broken Acrostic

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Audre Lorde invites the reader to contemplate some unfinished business in the concluding lines of “Legacy — Hers” collected in The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance. Poems 1987-1992. A dying word becomes a task. your last word to me was          wonderful and … Continue reading →

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Experience Expressed

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Francois Lachance

M. Travis Lane in “Skindeep” (collected in The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand) has a stanza setting off these lines Experience can bruise. It sometimes mends. It can not teach. I’m not so sure that once lifted out of … Continue reading →

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