Tag Archives: kennings

A Set of Kennings

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Francois Lachance

A kenning for structure … repetition. Whale-road is a kenning for sea. Time-machineis a kenning for the mind. Alive is a kenningfor the electrified. Terrance HayesAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin And so for day 314623.07.2015

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In the land of “attar of carexhaust catcorpse and cookinggrease”

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Francois Lachance

How not to love a poem that begins with the word “Dawndrizzle” and ends with a series of other compound words or kennings? Slumbers now slumtrack unstinks cooling waiting brief for milkmaid mornstar and worldrise In the middle there is … Continue reading →

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Matricial Musings

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Francois Lachance

New meaning to stack overflow… Spell the never filled () runs over ::: the stack that is a scattering ::: responding to form to begin a journey into speech with the likes of Michelle Cliff prefacing The Land of Look … Continue reading →