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June 20, 2012
Sue Goyette: Outskirts
from "aquifers,"
two
Gathering is important because the human voice taps our agricultural roots
and constructs a subdivision of voice that affects the heart of our supplies.
Any kind of concert is really useful because it helps us sing our need.
Just how long must we sing? Study the aquifer of joy! Especially laughing,
that ribbon of voice and song that peals
two
Gathering is important because the human voice taps our agricultural roots
and constructs a subdivision of voice that affects the heart of our supplies.
Any kind of concert is really useful because it helps us sing our need.
Just how long must we sing? Study the aquifer of joy! Especially laughing,
that ribbon of voice and song that peals
June 19, 2012
What we, in Canada, have come to think is a review worthy of publication
Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics
Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne, eds.
Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-55245-221-9, 407 pp., $29.95 paper.
Prismatic Publics is an excellently conceived and executed collection of interviews and poetry, but it is also seriously flawed.
It's "excellently conceived" but the fact that it is excellently conceived
Kate Eichhorn and Heather Milne, eds.
Toronto: Coach House Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-55245-221-9, 407 pp., $29.95 paper.
Prismatic Publics is an excellently conceived and executed collection of interviews and poetry, but it is also seriously flawed.
It's "excellently conceived" but the fact that it is excellently conceived
2012: Lemon Hound Anoints HorseE
Stolid Lemon Hound in praise of the radical HorseE.
BY lemon Hound
If I were driven to name one individual who, in the English language, by means of his own examples of creative art in poetry, has done most of living men to incite new impulses in poetry, the chances are I would name HorseE.This statement is made reservedly, out of knowing the work of HorseE and being somewhat close to it for
BY lemon Hound
If I were driven to name one individual who, in the English language, by means of his own examples of creative art in poetry, has done most of living men to incite new impulses in poetry, the chances are I would name HorseE.This statement is made reservedly, out of knowing the work of HorseE and being somewhat close to it for
Feminist Boot Camp #94: Think Before You Write
Believe in content. Behave like you invented it. Surface is surface.
Your emotion is not interesting in and of itself.
The shape of feeling is a useful outpouring.
What is a vessel but a line with wheels?
The letters piled up and the men began talking.
No one could agree who came first.
There was a laugh. It began with a laugh. It began by taking a step back.
The notion of not seeing
Your emotion is not interesting in and of itself.
The shape of feeling is a useful outpouring.
What is a vessel but a line with wheels?
The letters piled up and the men began talking.
No one could agree who came first.
There was a laugh. It began with a laugh. It began by taking a step back.
The notion of not seeing
June 18, 2012
Feminist Boot Camp #89: Know Your Materials
--Eva Hesse's Materials
As Woolf said, words fail us. Words fail us because they are so common. Because they have been the mouths of generations before us. And now around us. Everyone sucking on them. People you admire and people you wouldn't think to share a common language with. But you do. Words, common as ideas. We use them for the most banal forms of communication. We use them daily. We
As Woolf said, words fail us. Words fail us because they are so common. Because they have been the mouths of generations before us. And now around us. Everyone sucking on them. People you admire and people you wouldn't think to share a common language with. But you do. Words, common as ideas. We use them for the most banal forms of communication. We use them daily. We
June 16, 2012
On the Ethics of the Negative Review
Ah, Jan Zwicky. Someone I would like to hear more from, more often and in various venues. Anne Carson too for that matter--but she seems unwilling to comment on anything, not even her own career, which has been impressive and of course, subject to great suspicion on the part of fellow Canadian poets--didn't one critic call her our "national embarrassment"? And of course, when the essay I've
June 14, 2012
Feminist Boot Camp #27 Let Your Poem Go
She let her poem go.
It slid down the blue wave
into the sandbox of the afternoon.
It fraternized on the street
with young people drinking
wine and sporting revolutionary
symbols.
It went out into dark corners
and hid in the minds of sad
animals, reawakened only
when the light came up
and the garbage men,
thinking of dappled things
heaved one day into
the next. The poem
has a life
It slid down the blue wave
into the sandbox of the afternoon.
It fraternized on the street
with young people drinking
wine and sporting revolutionary
symbols.
It went out into dark corners
and hid in the minds of sad
animals, reawakened only
when the light came up
and the garbage men,
thinking of dappled things
heaved one day into
the next. The poem
has a life
June 13, 2012
What a Little Pie Can Do For You...
Thanks to Gillian Jerome and the women who have signed on to CWILA for the sharp visuals that tell a story we all know to well: the number of women reviewing and being reviewed in the most mainstream and the most staunchly literary venues in Canada, like the US is shockingly low. Here' a visual from the 2010 Vida Count.
Notice that VIDA chose to reverse the pink and blue. CWILA lets
Notice that VIDA chose to reverse the pink and blue. CWILA lets
June 11, 2012
Feminist Boot Camp # 193: Marina Abramović, On Being Out of Control Emotionally & Physically
Sacrifice the body. A friend who coached soccer used to say this. She also said, nail it well the first time. Or, perhaps I am saying that she said that. No one thought she was a she because she wore a tool belt. She sacrificed the body for her work. Pass it on. Sacrifice the body. Also the mind. If your brain doesn't hurt you are not thinking. My partner's mantra. Thinking can be like having a
Marina Abramović: On Being Out of Control Emotionally & Physically
Sacrifice the body. A friend who coached soccer used to say this. She also said, nail it well the first time. Or, perhaps I am saying that she said that. No one thought she was a she because she wore a tool belt. She sacrificed the body for her work. Pass it on. Sacrifice the body. Also the mind. If your brain doesn't hurt you are not thinking. My partner's mantra. Thinking can be like having a
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