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Garden Views

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Joseph Addison Spectator No. 63 [The forms of wit: an allegorical analysis] edited by John Loftis The essay outlines in a Spenser-like fashion the domain of the goddess of Falsehood and the minions of mixed wit to culminate at the … Continue reading →

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Prognostication

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Francois Lachance

From an old journal entry, copied in letters to friends, a fascination meteorological. Cool Weather Ahead. Slowly with the cool weather signs of spring unfold. Very happy to see the tips of tulips but sad that the snowdrops, those hardy … Continue reading →

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Floral Gender-Bending

Posted on June 27, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Vita Sackville-West. Some Flowers. Plates by Graham Rust. The entry on Tulipa Clusiana, the Lady Tulip, ends […] the slim little Lady Tulip who is more like a boy. which recalls the beginning She is familiarly called the Lady Tulip, … Continue reading →

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Parsing Transcriptions

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Francois Lachance

“Last Day” Timothy Liu in Say Goodnight Empty vases left in every room of the house. Those backyard bulbs releasing a company of spears — each tulip’s guarded flame a color only the gardener knows. A company of spears / … Continue reading →

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Scratch Lit

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Francois Lachance

There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen Ralph Maud on obscurity… (“Recurrences” chapter in What Does Not Change: The Significance of Charles Olson’s “The Kingfishers”) Obscurities do not push one away from a … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Rapunzel

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Stanley Kunitz in his forward to Beginning With O by Olga Broumas helpfully points out that the poems inspired by fairy tales also pay homage to Anne Sexton. As Kunitz remarks they “pay Sexton the tribute of imitating, though not … Continue reading →

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Proximities

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Francois Lachance

I have spent months brooding over some four lines of poetry. I initially thought that the rhyme paint/faint was too strong until I realized that it was the sound within a line (the relation of “wilt” and “faint”) that was … Continue reading →

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What Poets Do

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Francois Lachance

There are some wonderful passages to lift from Guy Davenport The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays. One occurs in “Spinoza’s Tulips” [an essay on Wallace Stevens] where the world nourishes the work of cogitation: [O]nce it is understood […] … Continue reading →

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Song and Bloom

Posted on October 31, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Amy Lowell “Lilacs” reminds me of Walt Whitman (“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d“) in its reach but its far shorter lines betoken a far different relation between botany and geography than Whitman’s lament. Lowell has us on a … Continue reading →

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