Profile avatar
lachance.bsky.social
World Citizen since forever. Scholar-at-large since 1996, interested in discourses of technology, sensoria, social reproduction, and poetry as cognitive device.
921 posts 379 followers 207 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter
comment in response to post
& every time we crossed paths at a reading (usually in the Boston area), it was just so good to see Danielle there. a pure joy— please read more of her work: poets.org/poet/daniell...
comment in response to post
Herman Hesse Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game}
comment in response to post
[...] he was already sliding along the wall of the night, losing himself in some crack of the ruins. [...]
comment in response to post
Reminds me of Ferron: 1980 "Ain't Life A Brook" on the album _Testimony_ But life don't clickety-clack down a straight line track It comes together and it comes apart www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT4j...
comment in response to post
I like the stroboscopic effect when scrolling over the image. A subtle affordance of the interface and the mastery of the medium by the artist.
comment in response to post
Lovely way to remind us of the mysteries of marcescence en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcesc...
comment in response to post
I like how this origin story is tagged in the bio by the description of having a century's worth of history in Canada. Marvellous how the origin story turns into an unspoken parting story.
comment in response to post
Interesting perspective on the time one must or should spend with a poem, being perpetually open to surprise: Surely a poem takes you by surprise, how else could you fall in love with it? On the first reading or the tenth. Reading or writing it.
comment in response to post
Brava! congratulations. A splendid resource in a beautiful format. So happy to see all your hard work materialize in a gorgeous book.
comment in response to post
Wild image -- i am left thinking of clunky clumps of confetti. A coherence of sorts...
comment in response to post
looks like big epic energy in the ALL CAPS :)
comment in response to post
It appears you made the statement public on January 3. according to the search netted by "From:@rezekjoe.bsky.social 50" Congrats on the productivity managed while parenting.
comment in response to post
*heel
comment in response to post
Love to hear the story of how you acquired that print. I do believe I know the artist well.
comment in response to post
I like the ratio between foreground and background - most of the picture is taken up by the bare trees and the hazy sun but the central focus is the little hedgehog character in a long trailing scarf demonstrating obvious delight in the lone snowdrop peeping up out of the white
comment in response to post
it took me a little while and a rustling through my memory for what a snow man's nose looks like ... very clever !!
comment in response to post
may all your preparations be for a lovely at home snow day