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Reduplications Reduplicated

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Andrea Cohen Nightshade p. 25 “Blizzard” [opening] All night plows plow. Snows snow. Lovers somewhere somehow love. Reminds me of Émile Nelligan “Soir d’hiver” which begins: Ah! comme la neige a neigé ! Ma vitre est un jardin de givre. … Continue reading →

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Singular Praise of Reduplication

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Nietzche from Human All Too Human again … It is an excellent thing to express a thing consecutively in two ways, and thus provide it with a right and a left foot. Truth can stand indeed on one leg, but … Continue reading →

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Simplifying Simplicity

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Jean-Paul Bavard An appreciation for an early reader — associating a face to a name — hoping there will be time for the grain of the voice beyond the page https://www.facebook.com/pg/Jean-Paul-Bavard-1437022473044768/posts/?ref=page_internal Back in 1999 Jean-Paul Bavard mentioned and quoted my … Continue reading →

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Discovery and Joy

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Francois Lachance

I am currently reading (have currently read) A Hacker’s Manifesto by McKenzie Wark who is much inspired by Deleuze and Guattari. From my reading I note two sentences (order inverted by me) from section 060 … The virtuality of the … Continue reading →

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Homophonica

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Michele Leggott Milk & Honey “tourbillon 1” I am arrested by a line and a reduplication of sound across meaning almost the lobe of l’aube a sliver of morning light comes to mind and the “lobe” becomes breast-like almost the … Continue reading →

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Dual Duels

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Would that English have a nice dual that was not first person plural which collapses the difference of the two (or more) into a collective identity. Even if there were a lexical means for referencing a dual, the verb inflexions … Continue reading →

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Marking Time Passing

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Francois Lachance

One line from Brian Fawcett Permanent Relationships dewwet morning What is amazing here is the simplicity of the means (rearranging the inter-word spacing) and the richness of the suggestiveness thus generated. “Dewwet” evokes that moment where the droplets have begun … Continue reading →

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LIP GRAM

Posted on April 15, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Lipogram: a text in which a given letter or set of letters is deliberately left out (Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics) Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book) by Nathanaël (Nathalie Stephens) preserves the French in its … 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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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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