Music for Men Over Fifty: Poems of Love and Surgery
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The Sad Phoenician – an advent alphabet
Robert Kroetsch entered my life in 1979, teaching the advanced creative writing workshop at the University of Manitoba. I heard him read The Sad Phoenician in 1979 the year it was published by Coach House Press. The reading was in St John’s College, the Chapel I like to think. The very same chapel in which
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Reading Canadian Poems 2
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DREAM October 30
Last night I dreamed a dream. Nick Lowe had agreed to come to Winnipeg to guest with a local band (maybe help with the production of their debut recording). Lowe was impressed by the demo I sent him. He flew from London, spending the night in Toronto before flying to Winnipeg. He arrived at the
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They were records before they were vinyl
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Regarding pain
Not of others as Susan Sontag wrote, but Regarding the Pain of Ours no Regarding Our Pain no Regarding My Pain. Today just two quotes because the Wikipedia is better on this than the Vicipedia which will also be getting some new entries in the next month. Pain is always new to the sufferer, but
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Zippers
I pulled the zipper closed on a mosquito net at Jenfest, and immediately heard summer. I was reading more Anne Carson last night and found this gem in her Glass, Irony and God. ‘”Treachery,”‘ (she notices) sounds just like his zipper going down.” – “God Stiff,” Glass, Irony and God, page 46. Zip it Up! This
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“Exuberance is beauty.”
Quotations from Blake’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” “Exuberance is beauty.” “Energy is eternal delight.” “Damn braces; bless relaxes.” “Enough! Or too much.” “I asked; ‘does a firm persuasion that a thing if so, make it so?’ “He replied: ‘all poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains;
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Poetry Must be Shared by Everyone
Livesay on Neruda from Poetics of Desire, Nadine McInnis “For Livesay, there exists the possibility of shared meaning. She strives for simplicity, moves away from ambiguity as she refines her poetic vision. She says ‘I believe poetry is for people. … as Neruda said, poetry is like bread. It must be shared by everyone.’
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