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Feb. 7th, 2008 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusSo last week I visited Indigo Books' Canadian Poetry section.
(Always a difficult prospect -- there's always such a crowd, it's a struggle to slip in. It's difficult, I'll tell you, to slip past the Margaret Atwood fangirls, the bpNichol cosplayers, and the kids lined up for the Lorna Crozier action figures -- though these are especially bad during the midnight release of her books.)
There I picked up a book of bill bisset's poetry, and a book of tribute poetry.
You know what's better than the fact that you can become a major Canadian poet by writing emo poems about gay sex in lolcat?
The fact that the crème de la crème of the Canadian poetry establishment will write tribute poems in your name, and often in your style.
(Curse your perfect grammar, Leonard Cohen and Margaret Atwood! Couldn't you have given us one poem in lolcat?)
You know what's better than buying two books of emo poems about gay sex in lolcat?
The little notice on the copyright page of both of them that each was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Your tax dollars at work ^_^
(Always a difficult prospect -- there's always such a crowd, it's a struggle to slip in. It's difficult, I'll tell you, to slip past the Margaret Atwood fangirls, the bpNichol cosplayers, and the kids lined up for the Lorna Crozier action figures -- though these are especially bad during the midnight release of her books.)
There I picked up a book of bill bisset's poetry, and a book of tribute poetry.
You know what's better than the fact that you can become a major Canadian poet by writing emo poems about gay sex in lolcat?
The fact that the crème de la crème of the Canadian poetry establishment will write tribute poems in your name, and often in your style.
(Curse your perfect grammar, Leonard Cohen and Margaret Atwood! Couldn't you have given us one poem in lolcat?)
You know what's better than buying two books of emo poems about gay sex in lolcat?
The little notice on the copyright page of both of them that each was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Your tax dollars at work ^_^