Poems
Hydra
by Jesse Patrick Ferguson
This poem originally appeared in Canadian Literature #207 (Winter 2010), Mordecai Richler. (pg. 89)
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Canadian Literature's Issue 215 (Winter 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Renate Eigenbrod, K. J. Verwaayen, Paul Murphy, Sylvie Vranckx, Mareike Neuhaus, Angela Van Essen, and Anouk Lang, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.
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Reviewed by Tanis Macdonald
What is the nature of the attraction of one artist to another artist’s aesthetic? In two of these three books of poetry by Canadian women, writers take up another artist’s work as their guiding principle, translating visual art into written text or moving archaic thematics into a contemporary mode. The possibility of creating poetry from existing art has a definite attraction, though sometimes art that is inspired solely by a separate aesthetic can be oddly wearing on the reader. […more…]