Heart Residence: Collected Poems 1967-2017 by Dennis Lee. Edited by Robert Bringhurst. / House of Anansi / 978-1487001490 /2017 Like many readers, I encountered the writing of Dennis Lee at least twice for the first time. The initial occasion was before I can recall. My mother worked as a children’s storyteller and librarian, and I grew up within earshot of his most … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by Cam Scott: Spools/Burrs (for Clark Coolidge)
Influenced by copy art and zine making, my work uses the copier or scanner as a means of drawing, often adapting, or 'quoting,' a source of conceptual significance. In this, a nostalgic practice of the hand is allied to the borrowed rhythms of an all-but-outmoded means of mechanical reproduction. Excerpted here are two suites of elaboration and compression respectively, … [Read more...]
