Tag Archives: Intertexts

O

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Francois Lachance

First line of Lisa Robertson’s Boat: Day o pens That spacing reminds me of one of the topics of Robertson’s Nilling (The Story of O). There Robertson opens: I open the codex; with skirty murmur, commodiousness arrives. And a few … 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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As If Donning a Rococo Wig: Listening and Noting

Posted on December 15, 2014 by Francois Lachance

Would there be sampling here? Fanfarinette / Rameau Holberg Suite, Op. 40: III. Gavotte / Greig I unfortunately don’t read music and go by my faulty ear but there may here be a musical intertext. What the ear discovered, the … Continue reading →

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Sails: White and Blue

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Francois Lachance

These concluding lines from Linda Pastan “Last Rites” Paris Review Issue no. 207 (Winter 2013) What’s left is a blur of sky where the weather rehearses its own finales. What’s left is blue emptiness behind the white sail of the … Continue reading →

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Star Crystal

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Francois Lachance

This began as an exchange about the Pantone Color Institute and wishfully getting jobs there setting the colour of the year. We then moved on to found our own colour consultancy agency. My friend thought I would be good at … Continue reading →

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Home Page — Paging Home

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Francois Lachance

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine offers glimpses into one’s past like this home page from 2001 What you may ask is a home page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_page A personal home page historically has served as a means of self-portrayal, job-related presentation, and … Continue reading →

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Membership Has Its Privileges

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Francois Lachance

One of the joys of signing in to the Humanities Commons is logging out because there is a delightful invitation to return. It takes the form of an illustration and an allusion to a poem by Edward Lear, The Owl … Continue reading →

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Escape and What the Waves Cast Up

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Francois Lachance

There was something of a reverberation in the line about the lonely shore and the rapture. Henri Cole “The Constant Leaf” Nothing to Declare […] It is strange how the past holds on to us how the rapture of the … Continue reading →

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After Bashō

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Francois Lachance

I believe this pond poem is after Bashō: George Swede from Tell Tale Feathers. A scan. A transcription. Summer Afternoon The bullfrog leaps the green pond opens one eye and goes back to sleep A machine-readable string: Summer Afternoon The … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Cells

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Library catalogue subject headings for Fantastic Voyage: Brain–Diseases–Diagnosis–United States–Drama. Leucocytes–Drama. Medicine–Specialties and specialists–United States–Drama. Scientists–United States–Drama. I believe and others have noted that Dr. Who “The Invisible Enemy” is indebted to the Fantastic Voyage. And so for day 2411 20.07.2013

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