Paul Matthew St Pierre, a retired professor of English, is the author of twelve books and seventy-five journal articles on literature, cinematography, and humour, including monographs on Barry Humphries and Janet Frame. Having dual British and Canadian nationalities, he is currently living off-grid on Lasqueti Island, BC, where he writes poetry, novels, and screenplays in the company of two Hovawarts. He is also a painter and sculptor.
The Letter Box
Two definitions: Poetry is human speech. Poetry is maximal language. The Letter Box is both. In the ancient Chinese form Qing Ping, syllabic verse comprising two quatrains (4/5/7/6, 6/6/6/6), the poems are spare and lucid, eminently readable. Yet, dense in syntax, prosody, imagery, and allusion, the...
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