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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

 

for Santiago Grigera

 

We

sit

for

death,

we

kneel

for

eternity,

we

watch

birds

perturb

the

sky.

 

Seymour Mayne’s latest books include Ricochet: Word Sonnets/Sonnets d’un mot (University of Ottawa Press, 2011), The Old Blue Couch and Other Stories (Ronald P. Frye & Co., 2012), and Cusp (Ronald P. Frye & Co.), a new selection of word sonnets which was released in 2014 to mark fifty years since his first collection of poetry was published in Montreal. He is a professor of Canadian literature, Canadian studies, and creative writing at the University of Ottawa.

 

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