“I’m a traditional poet. I like couplets, for instance.
I think ‘experiments’ in literature, like experiments
in science, usually fail and prove nothing.
But Life is an Experiment, right?"
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At Play on the Phone With Pebbles
A last embarrass at my stockinged feet as The snub-nosed metal lady ends My hypnosis and her visit, and the plants Breathe easy and start chatting Again, and the yellow sunlight Reminds me the white wisp of her hair Left here/ is both gray and Blond, that it was born in her head Right, and if she was born With those eyes in Boston, she has yet no Right over my soul, no matter how much spirit she Inherited, and what if I prefer to play On a blanket with pebbles, hard as Sex — why at least they are alive.
From Experiments in Banal Living
Editor of the trailblazing SoHo literary tabloid Unmuzzled Ox, this risk-seeking author confronts every issue from marriage and divorce to AIDS, Corso and Wallace Stevens in his latest, no-holds-barred poetic panorama. Andre has been shaking and stirring the New York City scene since his arrival there in the early 1970s. The father of a son, Ben, Andre is a graduate of McGill and Columbia Universities, as well as the University of Chicago. He has handled such positions as adjunct lecturer at Baruch College; hosting radio shows in Chicago and New York; serving as Associate Editor to Art NEWS and as Executive-director to The Magazine Co-op. He has also been the recipient of grants and awards from such institutions as The Canada Council and New York's State Council on the Arts. Andre's perception is unmistakably Canadian, spiked with the day-to-day esprit of life in the United States.
These poems “are a very great pleasure—lovely quick wit, like they say, with everything connecting. They make a mind of a manner of speaking… The cat’s jammies… Thank god they’re not lost! Canada takes over the New York School single-handed —clapping.”
“Life is risks…”
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fall 1998 release
In a voice that is at once world-weary yet tingling with insatiable enthusiasm, Andre rattles every risk he comes in contact with — the result is an exposé of streetwise arias, sweet disson-ances and other compulsory homages to survival. "This
book showcases the mentality of Canadian poetry's —Ronald
Charles Epstein, Canadian Book Review Annual "Mr. Andre's voice is fresh and daring — no platitudes for him! It's stimulating to know that poetry, in the right hands, remains as provocative as it is original." —Kirby Congdon, Small Press Review (Vol. 31 Nos. 7-8, July-August, 1999) "Believe
me, a wonderful book! ... —Daniel J. Berrigan, recipient of the 1998 Campion Medal
ISBN 0-921852-23-1
79pp
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