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Word Associations

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Francois Lachance

On the talker Madhouse there is a game of word association that reminds one of the practices of renga. Days will go by before a response comes forward. Sometimes within one day there will be a run. (Jul 5 18:20) … Continue reading →

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States of a poem called Black Tuesday

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Francois Lachance

May Swenson’s elegy for Martin Luther King cast as a set of beatitudes and collected in Iconographs is marked by the traces of the peculiarities of composition by typewriter. The word “blessed” occurs often but it is marked with an … Continue reading →

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Oneiric Composition

Posted on October 18, 2007 by Francois Lachance

The description of dream reminds one of the structure of story. People think dreams aren’t real because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and … Continue reading →

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Special Piercings

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Lachlan Mackinnon. The Jupiter Collisions. “A Crane Speaks”. It’s not the bird. It’s the hoisting mechanism at a rocket launch facility. The rigging’s tautness and the speaker’s “gauntness both recall” mice playing on those weed-cracked concrete beds, once Mercury’s, once … Continue reading →

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French Matters

Posted on October 13, 2007 by Francois Lachance

There is in French a distinction between the nouns matériel and matériaux. Harrap’s (French-English dictionary) provides the following definition matériel: plant working stock (of a factory); implements (of a farm, etc.); stock-in trade. matériaux: materials. A little more on the … Continue reading →

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Syntactics

Posted on October 11, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Every object and phenomenon can be read as or through a syntagm. Iain Chambers. Border Dialogues: Journeys in Postmodernity (Routledge, 1990). Captures my heart with this description of Jarman’s Caravaggio (1986). This is hardly parody or pastiche but rather an … Continue reading →

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Hanging Out With the Kids

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Francois Lachance

In the one interview collected in Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions Toni Cade Bambara offers up a wonderful portrait of Langston Hughes and his “violations” of the rules at the library. First he wouldn’t take off his hat and he … Continue reading →

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Rise Up Rhythm

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Seen on a T-shirt. DIG DA RID EM It took a double take to capture the essence. And when I did, I really dug the link between the power of chant or drum and the casting out of the undesirable: … Continue reading →

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Honour Roll

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Poets mentioned by Richard Howard in Paris Review (Spring 2004, No. 169) interview. Muriel Rukeyser Amy Clampitt May Swenson Marie Ponsot Jane Cooper Mona Van Duyn Pattiann Rogers Madeleine Defrees The listing itself appears almost as a Homeric catalogue of … Continue reading →

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Etiquette for Book Lovers and Others

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Three things you should say to a writer: Thank you (for reading this evening, for producing this book) It made me think. (It moved me). [NOT it reminded me of my own memory or experience.] All the best with your … Continue reading →

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