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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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E V A P O R A T I O N

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Francois Lachance

VERSschmuggel / reVERSible: An Anthology of English Canadian Poetry / Poésie du Québec / Dichtung aus Deutschland Tristan Malavoy on the poetry of Nancy Hünger at 46:26 … there is this idea that language is never fully acquired; it can … Continue reading →

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On the Scent

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Sylvia LegrisGarden Physic My Dear Love, How to write about flowers without the nauseating sentimental phraseology? No quaint, no dainty, no winsome. This smells good, that smells bad, my hands rank with manure. This at least is pure. –V. From … Continue reading →

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A Short Cento

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Fiona Tinwei LamOdes & Laments you, stacked with your companions,like fossilized vertebrae let each poem be fallen tree’s tongue. A harvest of hearts Soul of the soil p. 14 “Plate” p. 39 “Forest” p. 55 “Dark Mirror” p. 87 “Potato” … Continue reading →

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Corps et Textes

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Visceral Data: Renderings That & MatterDigital Humanities at Michigan State UniversityJacqueline D. Wernimonthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dIpX2tQCUk The last slide in the talk/demo caught my attention for its positioning of “narratives” We are inspired by Diana Taylor’s call to see embodied performance as a … Continue reading →

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Tapping a Path through Percussion

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Jacqueline Wernimont, author of “Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media” Distinguished Lecture, “Visceral Data: Renderings that & Matter” at Digital Humanities at Michigan State University. Link to talk/demo After listening to this presentation on data renderings in other … Continue reading →

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Round of Ribbons

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Yoko’s Dogs Caution Tape Between the covers, a circle. opening page… you came to me in a dream– was it by train or photograph? good night, that is, good morning farewell, that is, hello scouring a burned pot thinking of … Continue reading →

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Amassed

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Francois Lachance

Stan DraglandThe Difficult In an essay about poetry from Phil Hall (“Red Skeleton”), Dragland promises (p. 72) to eventually explain an allusion: How balance outright enmity with good-natured association, smart with dumb, the amassees and the masses (allusion to be … Continue reading →

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Voices Preserved

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Francois Lachance

“Playing” – one in a series – this oral history piece collects the voices of older adults reminiscing about the games they played as children. Brilliantly crafted in a way to evoke the intercutting of neighbourhood sounds. http://www.harbordvillagehistory.ca/storypost/14.html While out … Continue reading →

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On Being Intertextual

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Francois Lachance

A most cogent explanation of intertext and its relation to social experience. Michael Rosen Trying to Catch the Moments The Helen E. Stubbs Memorial Lecture No. 23 I think that’s our job, really: to think of questions about poems we … Continue reading →

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