Living in Dangerously Smooth Times will be launched on May 26 at Chapters in Dieppe.
I will be there from 2 p.m. until 4 p. m. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Chapters
499 Paul Dr Dieppe, NB
(506) 855-8075
“Working in the 9 to 5 jungle, might not be so bad if it did not have to get personal.” LIVING IN DANGEROUSLY SMOOTH TIMES is a collection of thoughts: stray stories, tips for living less stressfully, and social – political observations. Humor and sprigs of hope have been planted here.
At a young age, sometime before starting school, Valerie LeBlanc was out playing and began to jump over a hole that some workers had dug for a clothesline pole. In she fell and began calling for help. The hole was a few times deeper than her height and no one heard her. Realizing that she was on her own, Valerie began to climb up the narrow tube. By grabbing onto small rocks, pressing the toes of her shoes into crevasses, and arching her back against the sides of the hole, she was able to save herself. Learning this valuable life-lesson at a young age helped her to form an attitude of optimism and self-reliance that she imparts with a measure of humor in Living in Dangerously Smooth Times.
Details
Language: English
Number of pages: 138
Published by: Basic Bruegel Editions
Publication date: May 2012
Cover illustration, inside illustrations: Valerie LeBlanc
ISBN 978-0-9735206-5-1
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A special issue of ellipse magazine published to mark the 100th anniversary of Frye’s birth. Under the direction of Jo-Anne Elder, ellipse is mandated with promoting literary translation and intercultural awareness. The Special Edition features new writing by authors from the Maritimes and across Canada.
LAUNCH OF ELLIPSE SPECIAL EDITION: April 28, 2012 – 4:00 pm Readings and cocktail reception Lobby, Delta Beauséjour.
My text is printed below:
Summer is my Archetype
to Northrop Frye
As I travel into this volume
on the track of words laid out for me
I ponder the maize that carries me there.
The ticket, is my own commitment to enter,
my willingness to explore the world waiting there for me
within the constructs of the media.
My mind fabricates meaning,
interpreted by my understanding of an agreement
between the architects of literacy.
The voices in there are built within my own mind.
The appearances are conjured through descriptors
as well as my own living experience.
I see
I smell
I touch
I taste
I feel
through travel on those tracks of words.
My mind is resolved to the idea that
although the medium is always part of those messages,
the essential quality of communication
remains the availability of the receiver
to perceive and to create with the tools
laid out by each new technology.
And now that those words,
accompanied by images and sounds
inhabit cyberspace.
They wrestle down oral tradition,
performance, interpretation and
traditions of ceremony requiring physical place.
They argue to own the floor.
I leave them to champion the polemics of ownership.
If I do not hear trees falling in the forest,
it is that I have decided upon a new fork in the road.
I smell the savage freshness of spring
as the frozen winter beast melts before me.
I kick the dry leaves of autumn into infinity
and swim further out,
into the lapping waves of summer.
As time wanders simultaneously
on intersecting planes,
its comedies and tragedies
play out in pink and green.
As the medium both renders and nurtures,
extracts it pound of flesh
in influence
It rebuilds according to its own rules.
Time melts in the rendering of thought.
The hourglass signals warning shots, the buzzer will sound.
So forget it
and swim out.
Ellipse Mag, Side by Side Editions / Éditions Côte-à-Côte
No 87-88
ISBN 978-0-9737528-3-1
Summer is my Archetype, pps 165-166
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Videotaped from an apartment tower, this bird’s eye view features highlights of the July 6, 2001 Calgary Stampede Parade. Altered speeds are used for visuals and the cacophony of rising sound. Long shadows exaggerate the point of view.
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Paul Provencher
Vivre en forêt
Les Éditions de l’homme Ltée
Ottawa, Canada
ISBN-0-7759-0384-1
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TIPPY’S RECIPE A story of displacement and the search for meaning in life. From bio genetics, to time remixes, Tippy and his friends face challenges inherent to living inside a brain and outside in the physical world.
LAUNCH: April 1, 2012: This series will be uploaded weekly to the JUiCYHEADS site. Follow the adventure from bleak and frozen grayness to hot exciting cafes at the centre of the NOW!
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Valerie LeBlanc
Pluridisciplinary artist and writer, Valerie LeBlanc has lived and worked in many regions of Canada. She has presented, and participated in residencies, and workshops – throughout Canada, the United States, France and Australia.
"Working in the 9 to 5 jungle, might not be so bad if it did not have to get personal.”LIVING IN DANGEROUSLY SMOOTH TIMES is a collection of thoughts: stray stories, tips for living less stressfully, and social - political observations. Humor and sprigs of hope have been planted here.
This book wants to step lightly forward into the sun, carrying only the brighter electrons that are small enough to fit into an overnight bag. RULE NUMBER 1: Change your life, but never trade it. You never know what cans of worms someone else might be dealing with.
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