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“There's a place
between desire and memory, some back porch
we can neither wish nor recall”

Don McKay

'Apparatus' 1997 McClelland & Stewart Nov 2014
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Memory

“Phenomenology is one name for the path back from the object to the thing, the counterbalance to the objectification or 'progress'. Poetry is another.”

Don McKay

'Paradoxides' 2012
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“The nature poet may (should in fact ), resort to the field guide or library but will keep coming back, figuratively speaking, to the trail - to the grain of experience.”

Don McKay

Baler Twine

Nature