K. SIlem Mohammed at lime tree brands me in his blogroll. Thanks! Better than a jelly roll…
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From the Ends to the Beginning is an online bilingual anthology of Russian poetry. Here is a Pasternak poem, about blogging I suppose… Let’s scatter our words… by Boris Pasternak My friend, you will ask, who ordains that the speech of a blessed fool should burn? Let’s scatter our words As the garden scatters amber zest, Absentmindedly and generously Bit by bit by bit. Let’s not discuss Why the leaves are patterned So formally With ruby and lemon. Who welled up with needles And gushed through the slats, The floodgate blinds, Onto the music books in the shelf. Who dyed …
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There seems to be a major disconnect taking place here. Because is it possible to imagine two more mutually exclusionary representations of both a country and a land mass? The one on the left from outside Canada, and specifically from the United States. And the one on the right from inside Canada, as a country whose sense of “identity” has, since the end of the American Revolution in 1783, been based largely on distinguishing itself from the much more populous, powerful, and frequently expansionist nation state to the south. This does seem a bit ridiculous. As well as a little …
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I have added a small picture to the top of the left hand column. That picture will be a thumbnail sample of various art galleries I like, and I think most of them with be Canadian First Nations artists. It’s one way to honour my Aboriginal heritage and foreground it a little here. The current link is to a gallery of work by Coast Salish artist Susan Point. Enjoy.
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Portrait of a woman in pink and blue by Joash Woodrow Joash Woodrow has made his debut. Although he has been working since the 1950s and has produced over 3500 paintings, the 77 year-old reclusive British artist has, until now, worked in complete solitude. During the course of clearing out Woodrow’s three-bedroom house in March, 2001, his brother Saul sent a box of 100 books to an antique bookshop, and unknowingly included several in which Woodrow had painted over the pages. The owner, Richard Axe, intrigued at the bold, colourful illustrations, contacted an artist friend, who called Andrew Stewart, owner …