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Leaves
The Book of Green Tea Diana Rosen The copy I acquired had a very smooth excision. The book is designed with wide margins coloured in light green and adorned with various quotations. Very enticing for someone in search of bookmarkers. … Continue reading
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The Falcon, the Fish and the Heron
Denying oneself one’s prey to not become prey in turn… Then there are the bird fanciers shops, where they train and sell falcons, hawks and other birds of prey. One day in his Majesty’s ante-room the Master of the Ceremonies … Continue reading
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Bon Mots and Fine Images
I wonder if I had been given as an adolescent a copy with such a cover would I have developed such a love for aphorisms. I had long ago passed it along. But I came upon it years later and … Continue reading
Viola Tricolor Memento
Browse: The World in Bookshops Edited by Henry Hitchings Reading in this collection “Bookshop Time” by Ali Smith, I was struck by this passage about what gets inserted and preserved between the pages of books We leave ourselves in our … Continue reading
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drawn line has more than one direction
a drawn line has more than one direction or so we are informed by Mark Truscott “There” Branches How many lines in this glimpse of bare tree? […] drawn, a line can never really move in just one direction. It … Continue reading
And Nominated for Best Subtitle…
Ryan Fitzpatrick and Jonathan Ball have a long subtitle with a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek metadiscursive moment. Why Poetry Sucks An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry in English Written by Canadians for Canadians (or American Bodysnatchers) in the Early Years of … Continue reading
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Hooded Figures – Figured Hoods
I first came across a portion of the illustration by Wesley Bates in a Gaspereau Press catalogue. In the background you see figures in capriotes injecting a distinctly Klansman motif for which one finds a textual basis in the Forward … Continue reading
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Envisioning the Olfactory
The cover is by Prashant Miranda and appears as a close up partially covered by the title in one edition but is more expansive in another view in the edition available from the UK Like two different states of the … Continue reading
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All Around Us
I cannot celebrate enough Jane Byers impeccable justesse in the endings to the poems in the Keen sequence in Acquired Community. Look at how poignant and yet defiant the ending of the last poem in the sequence, “Elegy”, is But … Continue reading
Magnifying Portions or Reading The Red Blind
I needed a magnifying glass because the weight of the typeface lent a blurring affect given the tight leading. Some lines that take on a metatextual twist. Them’s the brakes. Care gives in to bebop pleasure. Use a concept to … Continue reading →