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Bruce Whiteman: Writing Montreal
Montreal seemed to enter my poetry almost by absence rather than presence, for when I left Quebec for Los Angeles I was obviously leaving not only a specific city but also a country, and I was unprepared for the sense of exile that overcame me. To some extent I felt sheepish, even guilty at having those feelings. Ovid was exiled. Dante was exiled. Victor Hugo and Ēmile Zola were in exile for a period of time. I merely left Montreal and Canada for a job in L.A., and I wasn’t sure that I really deserved to feel like an exile.
Jun 5, 2011, 11:00
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Bruce Whiteman: 4 Poems
Bruce Whiteman is a poet and writer currently living in Grinnell, Iowa whose books include The Invisible World Is in Decline, Books I-VI (ECW Press, 2006). His most recent book is a translation of Tiberianus’s poem Pervigilium Veneris (Russell Maret, 2009). He lived in Montreal from April 1988 until June 1996.
Jun 4, 2011, 15:12
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Ken Norris: Writing Montreal
Ironically, moving to a small provincial state like Maine made me much more of a world conscious author. Years ago, David Solway wrote a very fine poem, “New England Poets,” that succinctly explains why I will never be a New England poet. Besides, I’m Canadian, and feel a much stronger poetic connection to F.R. Scott than I do to Robert Frost.
Mar 16, 2011, 23:51
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Ken Norris: 2 Poems
Ken Norris was born in NYC in 1951 and emigrated to Canada in the early 1970s. He was one of the early editors at Vehicule Press and one of the Vehicule Poets. He currently teaches Canadian Literature at the University of Maine, and has been known to travel a lot.
Mar 2, 2011, 22:01
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George Bowering: Autobiology
Autobiology, like my daughter, was conceived in Montreal and brought to light in Vancouver. It was indeed a kind of turning point for me, and the model for some books to come, books that would derive from it and step into something else. The next book would have 48 sections too, and it would rub against Gertrude Stein, too, as it numbered the persons I got stuff from in my writing world.
Jul 21, 2010, 00:12
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George Bowering: Genčve 1971
At that time the hardest working and most serious young poet in central Canada was thirty-year-old Margaret Atwood. She is now and was then, logical, analytical—sensible. In secret she wore bright red babydoll jammies, but in her books and in her public addresses, she was a scientist’s daughter who knew how to develop an argument or show you an example.
Jul 21, 2010, 00:12
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