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Here's a review that I really enjoyed writing, and it just surfaced in Arc Magazine... Renaissance Clockwork: Aaron Giovannone's The Nonnets MAR 4, 2019 JOHN LENT Aaron Giovannone, The Nonnets Toronto: Book*hug Press, 2018. I’ve been drifting around in Aaron Giovannone’s latest book of poems, The Nonnets, for a while, trying to figure out, ridiculously, why I love this … Continue reading Blog #4: Aaron Giovannone’s Nonnets

One of the self-indulgent luxuries of being retired is that I feel an innocent, almost childish thrill sometimes that I only remember having experienced as a young graduate student at The University of Alberta in the late 60s and at York University in the early 70s: it’s a decadent, even guilty sense that I had, … Continue reading Blog #3: Some Notes On Per Petterson and Patti Smith

April 29, 2018 Below is a review of Tom Wayman’s book of poems, Dirty Snow. It’s funny reading the review now because it was written before Donald J. Trump was elected, so all my comments about ‘mean, bullying times’ seem even more urgent now than they were then.  It’s almost funny. Before the review I … Continue reading Blog #2: Tom Wayman’s Dirty Snow (2012)

Sunday, April 29, 2018 Hi there and a hearty welcome to my blog.  I hope I am going to have some fun here over the next few years. You’ll have to forgive a woodenness in me at the outset here: I haven’t done this before and a certain amount of self-consciousness might be the price … Continue reading Blog #1: Introduction and modest hope for this