Poems excerpted from the conference paper

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1

There would be a map here
Fold-line at Vancouver
And when the creased pages met
Whitehorse would kiss California

2

There would be a map here
A digital crystal of snow
Spinning over Calgary
Like a page that can't load

Secret feature: tap the edge
And the map flips over
the underside red
As the raw country under skin
The legend says: hellfire

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For context, the first poem comes above my analysis of Ivan Coyote's regional poetics and the second above my analysis of Rae Spoon's same, which include a violent evangelical home life.

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Comments

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

You're doing a paper on Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon? Could you get any cooler?

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

Rae and Geoff Berner are doing a show here later this month and I plan to go! I have a signed copy of Rae's first album, and their first book! I am cool, too! (okay, the album was signed for my brother, not me, because they knew each other in high school but still!)

[radiantfracture]

I sincerely hope it's possible to be cooler than *this*.

If not for me, then for those who come after.

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[radiantfracture]

Cheers for reminding me -- I got a ticket to see them here. Finest touring performance arts of the weirdies.

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[radiantfracture]

Read the paper on Saturday. I think the seven audience members quite liked it.

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[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

Oh, the work we do for so few!

LOVE.

[(Anonymous)]

LOVE. Whitehorse would kiss California."

So. Beautiful.

Bee

Re: LOVE.

[radiantfracture]

Aw, cheers, Bee. Lovely of you to leave me a comment.

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