Tag Archives: Intertexts

Feeding Fashion

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Another food poem in addition to the title-bearing poem in the collection by Jack Prelutsky A Pizza the Size of the Sun is the charming two stanza agricultural myth “Spaghetti Seeds” which concludes thusly I planted them year ago . … Continue reading →

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Read/Red Arrows

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Stein’s line has its own Wikipedia entry Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose Ronald Johnson in ARK 60 Fireworks I reconstructs the visual impact by a bit of clever homophony: arose a battleground: rows on rows … Continue reading →

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Howard “Trapping” Browning

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Opening lines of the dramatic monologue by Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” where the Duke of Ferrara guides a visitor to a portrait That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That … 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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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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Pause and Tumble

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Francois Lachance

from “Beds” in Can I Finish, Please? by Catherine Bowman These lines float like a haiku in the onrush of lines… you are enskied          in the mockingbird’s               indwelling song See what I mean by tumble… you are enskied          in the … Continue reading →

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The Immitigable Tree

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Virginia Woolf uses the archaic adjective “immitigable” in The Waves. It is always in the context of Neville and a certain tree. A very Edenic tree with lethal consequences. Project Gutenberg with an electronic version allows for a quick search … Continue reading →

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BTW Lullabies

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Reading Daryl Hine &: A Serial Poem I came across a passage that echoed in my mind with a reading of Gjertrud Schnackenberg Heavenly Questions. First #60 from the Hine book Immured in a single-occupancy cell, Each day indistinguishable from … Continue reading →

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At the Core of Apple: More “Apple”

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Francois Lachance

In reading Phyllis Webb Naked Poems (1965) I am at ease imagining a pair of lesbian lovers in the opening sequences. I take my cue from assuming that the poem’s voice is like that of the author female and that … Continue reading →

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Drink Me Lookalikes

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Looks like Alice https://shakespeareillustration.org/2016/08/07/juliet-2/ It’s Juliet by H.C. Selous. Used to illustrate the lines: “What if it be a poison, which the friar / Subtly hath minister’d to have me dead. [Act IV. Scene III.] Source Text: The Plays of … Continue reading →

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