Category Archives: Translations

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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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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Durations

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Kenneth RexrothLove Poems from the Japaneseedited by Sam Hamill We were togetherOnly a little while,And we believed our loveWould last a thousand years. Ōtomo no Yakamochi And so for day 312502.07.2015

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Winter Haiku

Posted on June 18, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Summer solstice reading:Liz Howard, “Archaeology”The Capillano Review I enter your book and someone laughsA pile of sentences to bring in for the winter Winter solstice reading: After Luke Bedford: icy fogransackingcampgrounds Lines from THE FOG by Luke Bradford icy fog … Continue reading →

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Being Gone as Mode of Letting Go

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Kim Hyesoon“Seoul, Book of the Dead – Day Twenty-Two”Autobiography of Deathtrans. Don Mee Choi No one will miss youFly away freelyWhen light arrives, offer your eyesWhen wind arrives, offer your ears And so for day 310512.06.2015

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Inkstone Dew

Posted on May 26, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Collected Haiku of Yosa BusonW.S. Merwin, Takako Lento, translators 628When I went to view chrysanthemums at a mountain village hut, the elderly host brought out his inkstone and asked for a hokku — Touched by the dewof your chrysanthemumsthe inkstone … Continue reading →

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Naming as a Calling into Being Named

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Marcus makes viewing-listening a joy. Richer than machine-generated closed captions. Continue reading →

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The Reach … The Remembered

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Francois Lachance

I am reminded of the title The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition by Judy Grahn by a fragment from Sarah Dowling “This Word: I Want” Entering Sappho apple-pickers forgot, you missed it — the pluckers and not … Continue reading →

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transfigurations and translations

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Francois Lachance

fragments from the frag pool: haiku after bashō gary barwin & derek beaulieu the double spread on pages 38 & 39 transcribed (sans the white space between sections) old pond draws the line frog crosses it fragment of bashogination pondiment … Continue reading →

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