Category Archives: Booklore

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Posted on February 27, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Kate Young. The Little Library Cookbook “On Reading” Whenever I’ve neglected them, books have sat, waiting patiently, always ready for me to come back. They are the true constant in my life, the grounding force, the comfort when I am … Continue reading →

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Blue Jay Marker

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Little borough. Big library stamp (4 in. x 4 in.) East York was amalgamated into the City of Toronto. This trace of the previous municipal structure survives in one of the holdings of the Toronto Public Library. A charming crest. … Continue reading →

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Yellow Mellow Waves

Posted on February 10, 2013 by Francois Lachance

I got to see this broadside at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. It was issued by Karyl Klopp’s Pomegranate Press in 1973. It’s a concrete poem by Ronald Johnson. Bright yellow with inventive use of letter forms and negative … Continue reading →

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Tools & Letters & Spaces

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Nelson Ball has a poem “for and after bpNichol” in The Continuous Present (Coburg: Proper Tales Press, 2012). He notes that “The visual poems were written while I was editing the Coach House Books edition (2004) of bpNichol’s Konfessions Of … Continue reading →

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Anatomy Meets Typography

Posted on December 29, 2012 by Francois Lachance

I was examining the copy in the Thomas Fischer Rare Book Library from back to front and remember seeing this page in the BookThug 2012 edition of André Alexis essay My Vagina. It struck be as a colophon. And the … Continue reading →

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A Chuckle of LongLugged Books

Posted on December 26, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Colleen Thibaudeau. My granddaughters are combing out their long hair. “As if in code …” It’s a poem about chucking out stuff. Jettisoning. There is a keeper — a line to keep in memory: chuckle of longlugged books, carvings, embroidery, … Continue reading →

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A Visual Intertext

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Sarah Dyer has lodged in Five Little Fiends a treasure for the discerning eye — almost as if in imitation of the fiends there is a hoarding of a favourite object. The story line… Everyday the five little fiends stand … Continue reading →

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Two Different Allusions; Two Letterforms

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Francois Lachance

The design of the cover is striking. It’s by Jodi Ballet. There are two shapes for the “i”. One is with its dot the same height as the “l” in “limbo”. The other is capped by a round nestled just … Continue reading →

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Fragility of the Egg : Strength of Image

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Gay Allison in “How to Gather Love” dedicated to Lorna Crozier concludes an extended description of the image of a woman espoused to country living with a contemplation of what could be (and what in other circumstances will be) … … Continue reading →

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Visual Intertext

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Francois Lachance

On the left White Rabbit Press (Stan Persky, Lives of French Symbolist Poets). On the right Gallimard (standard design as illustrated by André Breton, Nadja). Fittingly signifying Frenchness. And so for day 2192 13.12.2012

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