The Open Issue
Fall 2012 · Vol. 35 No. 2
Featured conversation with well-known Canadian poet, Jeanette Lynes. Thoughts of another well-known Canadian poet, Tim Bowling, in response to the loss of the very important American poet Adrienne Rich.
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- An Interview with Jeanette Lynes Clarise Foster: I understand you have a new book about to be released. What is the title? When will it be released? Where does this new work go that your previous work has not? Jeanette Lynes: My new poetry book, Archive of the Undressed, will be released by Wolsak and Wynn this fall, 2012. This collection explores spectacles of embodiment — the body as spectacle within popular culture. Specifically, ...
- Award winner Calling from Beirut There is no order and there is nothing we can hold onto that is called order. / Wires swoon from rooftop to pole, ...
- The Triumph of Hugh Hefner Hurtled his roadster straight through the great books / of his country, never once stopped for gas or swerved / ...
- last ditch and if i wasn’t moving, i was dead, dry fibres stretched down my throat / and all was green, tall, shuddering ...
- Potentially Inaccurate Alike the stars that far do shine, / are shone to us with days still ravelled. / / We are not seen by ...
- Single Pansy among Stones Yellowest ear. Stepped on rather than around, and no sisters. Holy granite. Saladable? Perish that fancy. / / ...
- Translating Paul Celan Nothing is as it seems, but buds on the trellis are the colour / of wine. Crocus bowls brim with fresh snow / ...
- Marine Biology You asked me if I knew how kite fish / kiss, and I said I didn’t / and you leaned forward, / slid your ...
- Language that Burns: Remembering Adrienne Rich There are poets, and then there are poets. The first category is large and consists of all those who write poems. The second category is tiny and consists of those few in every generation who write poems as if the act is a matter of life and death, a personal striving that transcends the personal by virtue of its urgency ...