Made in Montreal

Brion Gysin wanted to “disorder the mind,” and he succeeded in two well-known discoveries. One is the reordering of a text by the Cut-up met...

Finding Meaning in The Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up James Hollis, Ph.D. Gotham Books, New York 276 pages, ISBN 1-...

There was a time when I would have agreed with William Everson, certainly one of the major proponents of shamanism in poetry—his famous proc...

I remember, as well, in my late teens experimenting writing poetry. I would play loud music and write, thinking the music could help me acce...

Back in the early 1970s, when I was a student at Sir George Williams University, I took a line from the French poet Arthur Rimbaud and made ...

Our home on Avonmore in the early 1950s, before moving to Girouard for health reasons.

Girouard Avenue, facing south. 2226 Girouard is the door on the right. At 2226 Girouard Avenue (on the second floor), in the west end of ...

The gates leading into Mount Royal Cemetery.

I drove passed the Motel Raphael for years. The Motel Raphael, l ocated just off the St. Jacques exit on highway 20 ... When I was a child...

My mother driving her car, 1965 It’s March 1 st today, my mother’s 93 rd birthday. I expect more people of my generation have parents livi...

In winter, from St. Philip's Anglican Church across the street. . (Above) looking east, to downtown Montreal. (Below) looking west...

The doors to the Molson mausoleum, decorated with bare breasted angels, have now been removed as they had severely deteriorated over the y...