Tag Archives: Intertexts

Pondering the Potable

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Reprinted in Intertwining, John K. Grande’s review of the 1992 Paul Grégoire show “Alzheimer Social” at the Circa Gallery in Montreal likens the work to other artists. Paul Grégoire’s creations recall Edward Kienholz’s Pop art recreation of aging insomniacs in … Continue reading →

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Constant Constatation

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Francois Lachance

I once commented on the structure of the grid in Garry Thomas Morse’s “Petroglyph” from Discovery Passages and so it is not perhaps surprising that my eye would be arrested by the mention of stones in an eddy off to … Continue reading →

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Broccoli Ancestry

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Visual intertextuality. The cover of Tyler Kord’s Broccoli (Short Stack Vol. 7) appears to be a tribute to Mollie Katzen’s The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. Branches. Upright & Bold. And so for day 1534 24.02.2011

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Illusive Allusions

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Francois Lachance

The intertextual is not merely interstitial. It sometimes runs interference. I like the central image in Rhea Tregebov “Vienna, November 1983” in no one we know and how it connects with the haunting mention at the close of the poem … Continue reading →

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Mapping Echoes

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Jay MillAr “Author Photos” False Maps for Other Creatures. a landscape is a line one understands and how one stands echoes for me bp nichol A / LAKE / A / LANE / A / LINE / A / LONE … Continue reading →

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Companions

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Thanks to the generosity of Myrna Levy a copy of the Nelson reader Magic and Make-Believe is housed in the Lillian H. Smith Collection. Within its pages I found a delightfully engaging list of possible pets. Tagged as enriched content, … Continue reading →

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Grandsons of Dr Seuss

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Mongrel Media has released on DVD three films by Michael Ondaatje. They include Sons of Captain Poetry (1970, 29 mins.) which documents the work and spirit of bpNichol (1944-88). One of the treats of the film is capturing bpNichol reciting/chanting … Continue reading →

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The Utility of Lullabies

Posted on May 26, 2009 by Francois Lachance

We read here an echo of the last sentence of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. In his translations from the Greek of Heraclitus, Haxton provides as the last fragment (number 130) “Akea” which he renders “Silence, healing” [Brooks Haxton in Fragments: The Collected … Continue reading →

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Island Apostrophes

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Madeline Miller (Song of Achilles) led me to read Mark Merlis (An Arrow’s Flight) which led me to Sophocles Philoctetes where I came across the beginning of an incantation: Caverns and headlands, dens of wild creatures you jutting broken crags, … Continue reading →

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Word of the Day

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Alison Bechdel in Fun House has a pane which I thought was a typescript of a term paper with a floating text box obscuring part of the text of the “term paper”, said floating text box encapsulates a tender remark … Continue reading →

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