Author Archives: Francois Lachance

Ayonhwentsa’yawenda’ yaatsih

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Francois Lachance

In Quebec City one can spot on the facade of City Hall an Indigenous installation which lights up at night. It’s composed in words from the Huron-Wendat: Ayonhwentsa’yawenda’ yaatsih which translates into English (from the French) as “my territory, my … Continue reading →

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Interpretation & Rhetoric

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Reading approaches composition… An Aristotelian rhetoric is a rhetoric of interpretation. Such a rhetoric brings composing close to the activity of reading. Ellen QuandahlAristotle’s Rhetoric: Reinterpreting InventionRhetorical Review Vol. 4 No. 2 (Jan 1986) And so for day 314825.07.2015

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Calling & Codifying

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Francois Lachance

The will, the injunction, the aspiration. I will call language the forbidden attempt to codify ecstasy Starlings – Lisa Robertson And so for day 314724.07.2015

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A Set of Kennings

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Francois Lachance

A kenning for structure … repetition. Whale-road is a kenning for sea. Time-machineis a kenning for the mind. Alive is a kenningfor the electrified. Terrance HayesAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin And so for day 314623.07.2015

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Une Formation

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Joseph Wechsberg“La Tour d’Argent”Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet Tall, elegant, and dynamic, Claude studied to be an actor, a diplomat, and a lawyer, and now he is a combination of all three as a restaurateur. … Continue reading →

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Long Distance Longing

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Saeed Tavanaee Mervi“Me, Her, Telephone”The Oceandwellertrans. Khashayar Mohammadi in many ways phones resemble planets[…]that’s why the phone receiver smells of violets And so for day 314421.07.2015

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Thyrsus and Caduceus

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Mary Ann Caws“Baudelaire”The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism One of his major contributions to the literature of theoretical poetics is at once a theory of ambivalent analogy and an analogous embodiment of that theory. It is his … Continue reading →

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Worlds & Encounters & Standing on Guard

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Bahar OrangWhere Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty[ 102-103 ] Daniel Coleman In Bed With the Word is invoked for his take on Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of suspicion and hermeneutics of affirmation. Reading is ecological for what it does to our … Continue reading →

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Alliteration on L

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Francois Lachance

There is / no / lessening, / though / the little/ ubi-sunter / will always / wait / in the corridors / lamentatiously / lamenting / the lamentable / mutability / of lamented things from Andy WeaverLigament / Ligature And … Continue reading →

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The Complexities of Even Simple Language

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Samuel R. DelanyMad Man Thought is part of language. But everything we perceive, either through our senses, or through our bodily feelings, or through sitting in the dark with our eyes closed, remembering or thinking or figuring, is the linguistic … Continue reading →

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