{"id":4737,"date":"2023-03-09T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2023-07-04T16:35:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T23:35:29","slug":"bluestreak-a-new-canadji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/bluestreak-a-new-canadji\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluestreak: a new Canadji !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Christmas break in 2008 my uOttawa colleague Seymour Mayne (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seymour_Mayne\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seymour_Mayne<\/a>) and I set ourselves the project of writing linked haiku as a way of keeping in touch. The result was <em>Bluestreak: a new Canadji<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Blue-Streak-Mayne-Lang.pdf\">https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Blue-Streak-Mayne-Lang.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Ours was not a classic renga (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renga\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renga<\/a>) which consists of linked verse all right, but of stanzas of 5-7-5 <i>mora<\/i> or sound units, which we shall here call syllables or beats (if the latter the rhythm should be 3-4-3). These were to be<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>followed by two lines of 7-7. We were happy enough to write standard haiku without the intervening 7-7&#8217;s.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Canadji&#8221; was<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>his invention, playing off,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>if memory serves, my mention of a verse form<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I had imagined twenty years before with another poet friend, Richard<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Haly. He and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>I had thought of combining renga with terza rima and baptised our fantasy with the name of his late dog, Benji. I am still trying to write a complete hundred-line Benji. I&#8217;ll be reporting on that here soon.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Blueprint-for-a-Benji.pdf\">Blueprint for a Benji<\/a>; here is the original\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Benji-sketch.pdf\">Benji sketch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seymour and I did write<em> Blue Streak<\/em>, of which I&#8217;ve grown even fonder over the years, not only for &#8220;its own sake&#8221; &#8211; a definition as good as any for poetry &#8211; but for the memories of Ottawa and of the camaraderie they evoke.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Christmas break in 2008 my uOttawa colleague Seymour Mayne (https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seymour_Mayne) and I set ourselves the project of writing linked haiku as a way of keeping in touch. The result was Bluestreak: a new Canadji (https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Blue-Streak-Mayne-Lang.pdf) Ours was not a classic renga (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renga) which consists of linked verse all right, but of stanzas of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/bluestreak-a-new-canadji\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluestreak: a new Canadji !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[42,60],"class_list":["post-4737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-friendship","tag-poetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4799,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions\/4799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}