Category Archives: Booklore

Entries and posts that relate to the creation or consumption of books

A Commitment to Sufficiency

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Wendell Piez Pellucid Literature http://pellucidliterature.org/PellucidLiterature.xml * Likewise, incoming requests are never watched or tracked, to say nothing of counted or analyzed. This isn’t that kind of transaction either. Pellucid Literature does not take your name, watch your IP address or … Continue reading →

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D Q & R

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Today’s entry is brought to you by the letters, D, Q & R. Bertrand Russell The Good Citizen’s Alphabet illustrations by Franciszka Themerson DIABOLICAL – Liable to diminish the income of the rich QUEER – Basing opinions on evidence RATIONAL … Continue reading →

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Decidedly Dedicated

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Francois Lachance

for the family, related and unrelated, living and dead Joyce Nelson. Dedication to Battlefronts (Toronto: Coach House Press, 1977). And so for day 2440 18.08.2013

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Ever Ready To Converse

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Francois Lachance

In the Penguin Books Great Ideas series, Seneca On the Shortness of Life translated by C.D.N. Costa. You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus … Continue reading →

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fragile tissue of time

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Parenthesis 31 The Journal of The Fine Press Book Association “First Principles, Second Thoughts and Final Answers” Robert Bringhurst [p. 35] Writing encyclopedia articles pays very poorly when it pays at all. Yet the challenge posed by the genre — … Continue reading →

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Look Alike

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Francois Lachance

No moustache in one. No glasses in the other. Still they look alike. Illustration of Harry Duncan by Jack McMaster — Parenthesis 31 Photograph of Northrop Frye by Fred Phipps — Toronto Star, July 13, 2012 And so for day … Continue reading →

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Unplucked by the Copy Editor

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Francois Lachance

The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr sports a close up of the stamens of a daylily on its cover and a fragment from Dickinson (1058) “Bloom — is Result” (in Emily’s hand?) It is up close that some … Continue reading →

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Signatures, Covers, Samples

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Style brought to you by the hand. By the ear. By the eye. By the mind. George Swede’s signature is tight and compact like his talent for short verse forms such as haiku and tanka. Jan Zwicky’s signature is aswish … Continue reading →

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On Stock Responses

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Northrop Frye The Well-Tempered Critic Again, stock response cannot read a poem, but can only react to the content of a poem, which it judges as inspiring or boring or shocking according to its moral anxieties. Stock response is apt … Continue reading →

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Drawing the Line

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People “A Conversation about Bread” Junior was always trying out white folks stuff and brining it to school for us to try. […] When he brought potato bread to school for lunch, we were … Continue reading →

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