Synapse: Guillaume Morrissette
[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/11402637" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] the last time I saw you I was so angry at the most unnegotiable parts of yourself that I thought “black hole lobbed around twice‟. my thoughts were distorted, this is how angry I was. it felt like I meant the anger and was afraid to lose...
Lisa Robertson & Catriona Strang
Here, we find an archival gem that illuminates the pinnacle of an exceptional moment for women's writing in Canada, in Vancouver in particular. Here, in the thrum of the Giantess (a chapbook series I am trying hard to bring to you) at the birth of Debbie, of Debbie: An Epic, in a moment of Raddle...
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Gertrude Stein: Poetry & Grammar
What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose. There is no use in telling more than you know, no not even if you do not know it. But do you do you know what prose is and do you know what poetry is. I have said that the words in...
From the Archive: Refus Global Manifesto
We are the offspring of modest French-Canadian families, working class or lower middle class, who, ever since their arrival from the Old Country, have always remained French and Catholic through resistance to the conqueror, through strong attachment to the past, by choice and sentimental pride and out of sheer necessity. We are the settlers who,...
Essays & Fragments: Barbara Godard
Reading: "Excentriques, Ex-centric, Avant-Garde: Women and Modernism in the Literatures of Canada" by Barbara Godard. In 1984 Barbara Godard posited that the creation of a thorough literary history in Canada would require understanding women. Well, guess what? That still holds true. Specifically, in this article Godard calls for a rearticulation of literary history that takes...
