{"id":610,"date":"2021-09-06T21:54:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T04:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/?page_id=610"},"modified":"2024-03-13T22:59:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T05:59:36","slug":"dennis-lee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/poets\/dennis-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5bd3f22c wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-a2946a77\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignfull has-2-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout hide-in-mobile has-vertical-top ticss-a2946a77  has-dark-bg\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-bbddf55b\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\" id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-image-3eff5f04\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"918\" src=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Lee-Cover-EDIT.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1734\" style=\"width:264px;height:433px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Lee-Cover-EDIT.png 576w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Lee-Cover-EDIT-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-92b2db05\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<p id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-82f63cc5\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-heading-82f63cc5\">Re-Greening the Undermusic<\/p>\n\n\n<h1 style=\"line-height:1;text-transform:capitalize; padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;\" class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-post-title has-x-large-font-size has-lora-font-family\">Dennis Lee<\/h1>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-small-font-size\" style=\"padding-top:0\">Acclaimed poet Dennis Lee reviews a 50-year career, discussing works that comprise a \u201cpanoply of voices \u2026 live scenes from the battlefront.\u201d He explores the musical substratum of his poems, where language itself finally erodes in concert with the environment it describes. Like\u00a0<em>Testament<\/em>, this is a brilliant, fierce, and inspiring response to the environmental devastation we are witnessing globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-small-font-size\" style=\"padding-top:0\">Lee connects \u201cwith a teeming rhythmic energy \u2026 a swoop and pummel and glide \u2026 a kind of undermusic, which the poem sought to track and embody. I called it cadence \u2026 the pulsing coherence of what-is, transmitted as a rich, untamed array of kinaesthetic frequencies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-02d86e0d\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignfull has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-center ticss-c00aadba\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-853c0cd5\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-20c0ac10\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns alignfull has-3-columns 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class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-ti-fg-alt-color has-text-color has-outfit-font-family is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5c53b157 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;font-size:14px\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>Re-Greening the Undermusic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Dennis Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">$20.00<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-e7cee14e\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-ti-fg-alt-color has-text-color has-outfit-font-family\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;font-size:14px\">Arbutus Editions, 2016<br>48 pages, 4 \u00bd x 7 inches<br>ISBN: 978-1-896886-12-3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-background is-content-justification-right is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-55e0e953 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(90deg,rgb(29,31,37) 24%,rgb(236,230,220) 28%);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-76136483 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-ti-fg-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-f8561097 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;flex-basis:580px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-ti-fg-alt-color has-ti-accent-background-color has-text-color has-background is-vertical is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-29ab0a37 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:64px;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-bottom:64px;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-cf9344b0\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-twoOne-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-a37812ad\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-outfit-font-family has-normal-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-outfit-font-family has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:200\">\u201cA poet\u2019s home turf is words. And if the planet is re-greenable, language is one of the domains in which that needs to happen, for words are imprinted with the titanic project of our civilization, whose triumph is making the earth uninhabitable. If I crave a transformation of the way humans dwell on earth, I have to look for the energies of transformation in my own territory. The job of giving witness in words can\u2019t set the bar any lower than the greater job of changing our imprint on earth. It is not a substitute for concerted public action, but a subsidiary dimension of the challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-outfit-font-family has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:200\">So the question is not, \u2018What themes should a contemporary poet take up?\u2019 It\u2019s rather, \u2018What undermusic rings true?\u2019 If the constitution of what is undergoes a seismic change, events in words must change their rhythmic topology in like measure. The goal is a vibrational witnessing adequate to the deep structure of our era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-outfit-font-family has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:200\">Poets participate in the planetary campaign when they become attuned to the endangered energies of earth and let them shape the music of words. Both the energy and the endangerment have to enter the musical substratum of the poem. It\u2019s a matter of onto-acoustic realism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-outfit-font-family has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:200\">A poem rehearses a particular gesture of being. It\u2019s a form of contemplative practice open to anyone who chooses to take part, with no creedal tests or barriers. The technical moves the poem makes should be workaday sacraments in that discipline.<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014Dennis Lee<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-column-is-layout-90b4ea07 wp-block-column-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:80px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;flex-basis:60%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized has-custom-border is-style-default\" id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-image-7bdb08a8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-ti-bg-alt-border-color wp-image-702\" style=\"border-width:2px;object-fit:cover;width:350px;height:455px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot-620x929.jpg 620w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot.jpg 1194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6ab92954 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-358587c9\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-d6460d89\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\"><strong>Dennis Lee<\/strong> co-founded the House of Anansi Press, directed the poetry program at McClelland &amp; Stewart, and served as Toronto\u2019s first poet laureate. He has published 20 books of children\u2019s poetry and is an Officer of the Order of Canada. Lee has received many literary prizes including the Governor General\u2019s Award. He wrote the song lyrics for Jim Henson\u2019s <em>Fraggle Rock<\/em> and contributed script copy for Henson\u2019s <em>The Dark Crystal<\/em> and <em>Labyrinth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Read <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/viuportalmagazine\/docs\/2013\/44\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#3c5c40\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>an interview with Dennis Lee<\/strong><\/mark><\/a> in <em>Portal<\/em> 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-background is-content-justification-right is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-55e0e953 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(90deg,rgb(198,159,116) 0%,rgb(198,159,116) 43%,rgb(236,230,220) 52%);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns 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class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-twoOne-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-cec7ab54\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Lee delivered The Ralph Gustafson Distinguished Poets Lecture on October 18, 2012. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center has-ti-bg-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-column-is-layout-54b2b8b6 wp-block-column-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:0px;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:47px;flex-basis:60%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a 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alt=\"House of Anansi Press \/ $14.95\" class=\"wp-image-1792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Civil-Elegies.jpg 300w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Civil-Elegies-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-ti-fg-color has-ti-bg-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-d2480b4ab32bfef4442ffdbb1b3163ba is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-33edef47 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-88ac9d1b wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-19c400f2 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.9\"><em>Kingdom of Absence<\/em> (1967)<br><em>Civil Elegies<\/em> (1968)<br><em>Not Abstract Harmonies But<\/em> (1974)<br><em>The Death of Harold Ladoo<\/em> (1976)<br><em>The Gods<\/em> (1979)<br><em>The Difficulty of Living on Other Planets<\/em> (1987)<br><em>Riffs<\/em> (1993)<br><em>Nightwatch<\/em> (1996)<br><em>Un<\/em> (2003)<br><em>So cool<\/em> (2004)<br><em>The Bard of the Universe<\/em> (2007)<br><em>YesNo<\/em> (2007)<br><em>Testament<\/em> (2012)<br><em>Heart Residence<\/em> (2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-small-font-size is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\">\n<p>Within Lee&#8217;s long list of children&#8217;s poetry books are classics <em>Alligator Pie<\/em> (1974) and <em>Garbage Delight<\/em> (1977).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee&#8217;s<strong> <\/strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-custom-warm-brown-color\">non-fiction<\/mark> includes <em>Savage Fields <\/em>(1977), <em>Reading Adonis<\/em> (1987), and <em>Body Music<\/em> (1998).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-custom-warm-brown-color\">editorial<\/mark> work includes <em>An Anthology of Verse<\/em> (1964), <em>The University Game<\/em> (1968), <em>T.O. Now: The Young Toronto Poets<\/em> (1968), and <em>The New Canadian Poets <\/em>(1985).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-ti-bg-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d436d845 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-b0f5f9a5\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-2-columns has-desktop-twoOne-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-center\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-d29ab2de\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-19e250f3 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.9\"><em>Kingdom of Absence<\/em> (1967)<br><em>Civil Elegies<\/em> (1968)<br><em>Not Abstract Harmonies But<\/em> (1974)<br><em>The Death of Harold Ladoo<\/em> (1976)<br><em>The Gods<\/em> (1979)<br><em>The Difficulty of Living on Other Planets<\/em> (1987)<br><em>Riffs<\/em> (1993)<br><em>Nightwatch<\/em> (1996)<br><em>Un<\/em> (2003)<br><em>So cool<\/em> (2004)<br><em>The Bard of the Universe<\/em> (2007)<br><em>YesNo<\/em> (2007)<br><em>Testament<\/em> (2012)<br><em>Heart Residence<\/em> (2017)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-030538ab\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-small-font-size is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Within Lee&#8217;s long list of children&#8217;s poetry books are classics <em>Alligator Pie<\/em> (1974) and <em>Garbage Delight<\/em> (1977).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee&#8217;s<strong> <\/strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-custom-warm-brown-color\">non-fiction<\/mark> includes <em>Savage Fields <\/em>(1977), <em>Reading Adonis<\/em> (1987), and <em>Body Music<\/em> (1998).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-custom-warm-brown-color\">editorial<\/mark> work includes <em>An Anthology of Verse<\/em> (1964), <em>The University Game<\/em> (1968), <em>T.O. Now: The Young Toronto Poets<\/em> (1968), and <em>The New Canadian Poets <\/em>(1985).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.ca\/9781443411516\/alligator-pie-classic-edition\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"477\" height=\"648\" data-id=\"1793\" src=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Alligator-Pie-1.jpg\" alt=\"Harper Collins \/ $19.95\" class=\"wp-image-1793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Alligator-Pie-1.jpg 477w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Alligator-Pie-1-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Body-Music.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"647\" height=\"1000\" data-id=\"1791\" src=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Body-Music.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Body-Music.jpg 647w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Body-Music-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TO-Now.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"442\" data-id=\"1788\" src=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TO-Now.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TO-Now.jpg 300w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TO-Now-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-ti-bg-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-3d3244eb wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-ti-fg-alt-color has-custom-lee-deep-green-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-33ba058c2d740a969098ab77a50e42cc is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7eea556c wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-557b1fdc wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:0;flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\" id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-image-fed87080\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Lee-Cover-EDIT.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"918\" src=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Lee-Cover-EDIT.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1734\" style=\"width:287px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Lee-Cover-EDIT.png 576w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Lee-Cover-EDIT-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-51d81115\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-e6600010\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;font-size:12px\">RE-GREENING THE UNDERMUSIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-large-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;font-style:normal;font-weight:600;line-height:1.3\">Dennis Lee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-normal-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.5\">Acclaimed poet Dennis Lee reviews a 50-year career, discussing works that comprise a \u201cpanoply of voices \u2026 live scenes from the battlefront.\u201d He explores the musical substratum of his poems, where language itself finally erodes in concert with the environment it describes. Like\u00a0<em>Testament<\/em>, this is a brilliant, fierce, and inspiring response to the environmental devastation we are witnessing globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-normal-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.5\">Lee connects \u201cwith a teeming rhythmic energy \u2026 a swoop and pummel and glide \u2026 a kind of undermusic, which the poem sought to track and embody. I called it cadence \u2026 the pulsing coherence of what-is, transmitted as a rich, untamed array of kinaesthetic frequencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-ti-fg-alt-color has-custom-lee-deep-green-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-aabba19a88d04055eb8e077db48c7209 is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5937c6b8 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-ti-fg-alt-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-36126d01dcb326f61ff63c4773602d8c is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-557b1fdc wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-ti-fg-alt-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0d053680f5c4911a1a18f2d3602b2772 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-1fb448e7 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-75 is-style-primary\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/campus-store.viu.ca\/shop_product_detail.asp?catalog_group_id=Mg&amp;catalog_group_name=R2VuZXJhbCBCb29rcw&amp;catalog_id=85&amp;catalog_name=VGhlIEd1c3RhZnNvbiBQb2V0cnkgU2VyaWVz&amp;pf_id=1641&amp;product_name=U29uZ3MgV2l0aG91dCBQcmljZQ&amp;type=3&amp;target=shop_product_list.asp\">Shop Now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-b8532b36\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-f86c0aea\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-ti-fg-alt-color has-text-color has-outfit-font-family\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:2.7rem;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:2.7rem;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;font-size:14px\">Arbutus Editions, 2016<br>48 pages, 4 \u00bd x 7 inches<br>ISBN: 978-1-896886-12-3<br>$20.00<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-background is-content-justification-right is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-55e0e953 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(90deg,rgb(29,31,37) 24%,rgb(236,230,220) 28%);margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-76136483 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-ti-fg-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-f8561097 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;flex-basis:580px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-ti-fg-alt-color has-ti-accent-background-color has-text-color has-background is-vertical is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-29ab0a37 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:64px;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-bottom:64px;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80)\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-73dd6747\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-twoOne-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-collapsedRows-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-054a97cf\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-outfit-font-family has-normal-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-outfit-font-family has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:200\">\u201cA poet\u2019s home turf is words. And if the planet is re-greenable, language is one of the domains in which that needs to happen, for words are imprinted with the titanic project of our civilization, whose triumph is making the earth uninhabitable. If I crave a transformation of the way humans dwell on earth, I have to look for the energies of transformation in my own territory. The job of giving witness in words can\u2019t set the bar any lower than the greater job of changing our imprint on earth. It is not a substitute for concerted public action, but a subsidiary dimension of the challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-outfit-font-family has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:200\">So the question is not, \u2018What themes should a contemporary poet take up?\u2019 It\u2019s rather, \u2018What undermusic rings true?\u2019 If the constitution of what is undergoes a seismic change, events in words must change their rhythmic topology in like measure. The goal is a vibrational witnessing adequate to the deep structure of our era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-outfit-font-family has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:200\">Poets participate in the planetary campaign when they become attuned to the endangered energies of earth and let them shape the music of words. Both the energy and the endangerment have to enter the musical substratum of the poem. It\u2019s a matter of onto-acoustic realism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-outfit-font-family has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:200\">A poem rehearses a particular gesture of being. It\u2019s a form of contemplative practice open to anyone who chooses to take part, with no creedal tests or barriers. The technical moves the poem makes should be workaday sacraments in that discipline.<\/p>\n<cite>\u2014Dennis Lee<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-column-is-layout-90b4ea07 wp-block-column-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:80px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;flex-basis:60%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized has-custom-border is-style-default\" id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-image-50080135\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Wayman-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"943\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Wayman-headshot-943x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-ti-bg-alt-border-color wp-image-714\" style=\"border-width:2px;object-fit:cover;width:350px;height:455px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Wayman-headshot-943x1024.jpg 943w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Wayman-headshot-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Wayman-headshot-768x834.jpg 768w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Wayman-headshot-620x673.jpg 620w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Wayman-headshot.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 943px) 100vw, 943px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6ab92954 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-09d86993\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-921e994e\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\"><strong>Tom Wayman<\/strong> holds an MFA from the University of California and worked as a reporter for <em>The Vancouver Sun. <\/em>He has been writer-in-residence at the universities of Windsor, Alberta, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Toronto as well as at SFU. His bibliography includes over twenty poetry collections, and he co-founded the Kootenay School of the Arts and the Vancouver Industrial Writers\u2019 Union. He has been the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. He received the Acorn-Plantos Award in 2013 and the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022, and he was named a Vancouver Literary Landmark in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/viuportalmagazine\/docs\/2008\/8\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"issuu.com\/viuportalmagazine\/docs\/2008\/8\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-custom-wayman-warm-brown-color\"><strong>an interview with Tom Wayman<\/strong><\/mark><\/a> in <em>Portal <\/em>2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-ti-fg-color has-ti-bg-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-a7936d0e1d3c2df5cc42d1ed3a840ca4 is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-71cdb808 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-557b1fdc wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:0;flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized has-custom-border\" id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-image-1c1306e1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1194\" height=\"1790\" src=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-ti-fg-alt-border-color wp-image-702\" style=\"border-width:4px;width:287px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot.jpg 1194w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lee-headshot-620x929.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1194px) 100vw, 1194px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-d3179f8d\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-c25e7456\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-normal-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.5\"><strong>Dennis Lee<\/strong> co-founded the House of Anansi Press, directed the poetry program at McClelland &amp; Stewart, and served as Toronto\u2019s first poet laureate. He has published 20 books of children\u2019s poetry and is an Officer of the Order of Canada. Lee has received many literary prizes including the Governor General\u2019s Award. He wrote the song lyrics for Jim Henson\u2019s <em>Fraggle Rock<\/em> and contributed script copy for Henson\u2019s <em>The Dark Crystal<\/em> and <em>Labyrinth<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-normal-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;line-height:1.5\">Read <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/viuportalmagazine\/docs\/2013\/44\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#3c5c40\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>an interview with Dennis Lee<\/strong><\/mark><\/a> in <em>Portal<\/em> 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-ti-fg-alt-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-c196933c9ab8694a866f7b830b310d54 is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-33edef47 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"background-color:#c69f74;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-88ac9d1b wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;flex-basis:100%\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-d3e61319\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-b71114a7\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Lee delivered The Ralph Gustafson Distinguished Poets Lecture on October 18, 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-ti-fg-color has-ti-bg-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-05f7d17916edb1b4273ce6615f776ab0 is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-71cdb808 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-c9ac7edd wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;flex-basis:100%\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-0a42c2c0\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-unset\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-5b88d7dd\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-Lecture-Lee-EDIT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-Lecture-Lee-EDIT.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-Lecture-Lee-EDIT.jpg 868w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-Lecture-Lee-EDIT-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2012-Lecture-Lee-EDIT-768x382.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-ti-fg-alt-color has-ti-bg-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-d3a96489e4a59e9fc3a95411eac6dbf6 is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e6e34e39 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-top:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-88ac9d1b 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Anansi Press \/ $19.95\" class=\"wp-image-1787\" style=\"width:290px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Testament.jpg 300w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Testament-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-902c2141\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-center\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-59b0e04e\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/YesNo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.brickbooks.ca\/shop\/riffs-by-dennis-lee\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Riffs.jpeg\" alt=\"Brick Books \/ $29.95\" class=\"wp-image-1786\" style=\"width:290px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Riffs.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Riffs-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-327a94b3\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns has-1-columns has-desktop-equal-layout has-tablet-equal-layout has-mobile-equal-layout has-vertical-center\"><div class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-columns-overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"innerblocks-wrap\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column-4451fda0\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-advanced-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/houseofanansi.com\/products\/civil-elegies?_pos=4&amp;_sid=696237413&amp;_ss=r\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Civil-Elegies.jpg\" alt=\"House of Anansi Press \/ $14.95\" class=\"wp-image-1792\" style=\"width:290px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Civil-Elegies.jpg 300w, https:\/\/portalmagazine.ca\/gustafson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Civil-Elegies-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-ti-fg-color has-ti-bg-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-25bcce9562c9ced21df3606a88340afd is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-33edef47 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-88ac9d1b wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0;flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-19c400f2 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.9\"><em>Kingdom of Absence<\/em> (1967)<br><em>Civil Elegies<\/em> (1968)<br><em>Not Abstract Harmonies But<\/em> (1974)<br><em>The Death of Harold Ladoo<\/em> (1976)<br><em>The Gods<\/em> (1979)<br><em>The Difficulty of Living on Other Planets<\/em> (1987)<br><em>Riffs<\/em> (1993)<br><em>Nightwatch<\/em> (1996)<br><em>Un<\/em> (2003)<br><em>So cool<\/em> (2004)<br><em>The Bard of the Universe<\/em> (2007)<br><em>YesNo<\/em> (2007)<br><em>Testament<\/em> (2012)<br><em>Heart Residence<\/em> (2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-small-font-size is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\">\n<p>Within Lee\u2019s long list of children\u2019s poetry books are classics\u00a0<em>Alligator Pie<\/em>\u00a0(1974) and\u00a0<em>Garbage Delight<\/em>\u00a0(1977).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>non-fiction\u00a0includes\u00a0<em>Savage Fields\u00a0<\/em>(1977),\u00a0<em>Reading Adonis<\/em>\u00a0(1987), and\u00a0<em>Body Music<\/em>\u00a0(1998).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His\u00a0editorial\u00a0work includes\u00a0<em>An Anthology of Verse<\/em>\u00a0(1964),\u00a0<em>The University Game<\/em>\u00a0(1968),\u00a0<em>T.O. 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