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Myth At Hand

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Ron Paulson “Crow Creek” in First Person Plural edited by Judith Fitzgerald. It is sharp. And wise. Recall doesn’t lead to nostalgia. It looks forward to the telling of the story. Here are the last three stanzas: There probably isn’t … Continue reading →

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Anne Sofie and Her Stars

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Francois Lachance

The intimacy of a first name basis. There are some people I’d like to thank and since this is my pop record I know I’m allowed: Joni, Carole, Judy C, Carly, Mama Cass Eliot, Barbra et al whose songs and … Continue reading →

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Two Functions Two Topographies

Posted on April 24, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Space of memory: container Space for memory: site of an exchange/dialogue And so for day 1228 24.04.2010

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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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Seep Age Drift Age

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Francois Lachance

[…] l’être du language n’apparaît pour lui-même, que dans la disparition du sujet. Michel Foucault “La Pensée du dehors” Critique No. 229 (June 1966) Dispersal. Refiguration. In the poetry of Edward Mycue, collected in Mindwalking 1937-2007, one comes to “Word … Continue reading →

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Night Falls Darkness Rises

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Maureen Scott Harris. Drowning Lessons distance stands up around me It is a perhaps puzzling assertion until one makes the experiment oneself. Looking down at one’s toes, sensing the short distance, slowly raising one’s head to peer above the tree … Continue reading →

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Inhaling

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Bonnie Marranca in her preface to a collection of food writing entitled A Slice of Life offers this anecdote. [T]wo summers ago in Nova Scotia, we stopped by the side of the road to have a picnic lunch with our … Continue reading →

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Active Mind

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Nella Cotrupi in Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process draws attention to Frye’s discussion of Blake. In Fearful Symmetry, Frye used Blake’s distinction between the visonary ‘Hallelujah-Chorus’ perception of the sun and its more prosaic, rationalistic reception as a … Continue reading →

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Small Furniture Big Imaginations

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Francois Lachance

For some reason, it is the mention of the furnishings of the library that capture my attention in an article about the institutional recognition of children’s literature (Beverly Lyon Clark, “Kiddie Lit in Academe” in Profession 1996 published by the … Continue reading →

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Mind Works

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Francois Lachance

A quotation from a quotation. Vika Zafrin posting to Humanist and asking about references to “associative thinking”. She quotes from Vannevar Bush “As We May Think” With one item in its grasp, [the mind] snaps instantly to the next that … Continue reading →

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