“I am abject, that is mortal and speaking” Powers of Horror, An essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva, Columbia University Press, New York, 198 “I am abject, that is mortal and speaking”[1] I actually met Julia Kristeva in Toronto the day the Blue Jays won the world series. Her texts, translated in to English, (I know
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ON ABJECTION
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DIPPING A BUCKET IN COLD WATER
I have been NO I am writing MANIFESTOS. I like to figure 5 is enough. Remember before capital letters were promoted to uppercase in keeping with the type room and styling type. Never you mind! I am up to five manifestos, would easily seem to be enough. Listem. Breathe, Suffer, Desire, Suffer, and Love. PERSIST
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GRACE NICKEL
A wound gives off its own light surgeons say.” Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband. I met Grace Nickel behind my back. Five vessels, shorter vases perhaps, under plexiglass to keep the gorgeous ceramics safely in view, rested on the credenza in my Manitoba Arts Council office. I met many fine artists, high and
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A selection from my Archives!
THE LETTER-WRITER “If I am out of my mind, it’s all right with me,” thought Moses Herzog. Some people thought he was cracked and for a time he himself had doubted that he was all there. But n0w, though he still behaved oddly, he felt confident, cheerful, clairvoyant and strong. He had fallen under a
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In the angel’s mind there are no angels that stop
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Today is another day
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
This story prompted the poem “Look”, which can be found in the Letter E and in Lookshow.ca . My mother told this story about her mother and her brother. Mother loved to go visiting and she usually did this by horse and buggy. She always had to have a “runner” (pacer) so she could go
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WAR ALL THE TIME
losing time I look for a pattern in the dead. There may be an answer in the spent ammunition. Time, yes, it’s gone ejected like a casing emptied of lead. From Afghanistan Confessions Marked manuscript available under Archives – A. Armies and empires come and go, War constant.
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E (Archives)
E is for Enns, our origin story. Twins left by the river Enns. One died, the other they called Abraham.
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PHYSICAL HEALTH
UPDATE MARCH 27, 2018 Good news and bad news. My blood pressure is a low 110 over 70, not unusual in our family, my father and brother the exceptions. It seems I arrived at my GP’s with barely a pulse. The doc checked the pulse in my feet, including the one that will be sacrificed
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