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On the cover: J.R. Léveillé
Poem as Travelogue
Summer 2008 · Vol. 31 No. 1
“Poem as Travelogue / Le poème comme explorateur” features an interview with J.R. Léveillé, internationally respected Franco-Manitoban poet, novelist and essayist, by Laurent Poliquin, with a new selection of his work. J.R. Léveillé talks about writing, poetry and geo-social polemics of French Canadian writing. Also includes “Formally Speaking” by Maurice Mierau, and new poetry by Heather Casby, Rhona McAdam, Patrick Woodcock, and many more poets who have travelled to the ends of the world in poetic form.
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- mount merapi: yogyakarta, java, Indonesia “Here,” he says, “this is where you may see / Gunung Merapi” The Burning Mountain. / The volcano looms in ...
- romania, sideways supposedly, we all come with / hair clean, combed free of nits. / don't share towels, she warns, / ...
- at doi suthep Green porcelain gleam / of Naga’s scales along a balustrade, / garudas craning skyward from a tiered roof. / ...
- hotel room, madrid We leave behind a language, travel back / to where her name began, a country split / in dialect she never ...
- the great northern poem has not been written. No, but it is here. It’s there, North of your first breath, North of your / free speech. ...
- Contest winner chamelier My proof of choice was moonshine / a fermented sugar that could parch every last hydrogen / pearl from the ...
- Contest winner as a child Poppa’s trinkets shudder / and rattle against the window-shelf pane / whenever one of the grans primes the ...
- Contest winner Where you came from I made a crude vessel, a trough my sweetheart. / Shiny pigs, the knives went rooting in the muck of me. / ...
- Contest winner Road Conditions january weather is agitated daily along / the four-oh-one. each nimbus vessel / pausing to think before ...
- Contest winner Dear Elizabeth Your letters have kept me company for weeks / but now I feel the wrench of parting, the book / about to end, ...
- Contest winner This is for Richardson’s Ground Squirrel flickertail, picketpen, tawny burrowing pest / of the short grass prairie, crippler of horse & rider, / ...
