James Reaney on the Grid Poetry Aqueous by Nathanael Jones is

Aqueous by Nathanael Jones is a collection of prose poems that address the ways in which post-colonial realities in the black diaspora continue to fracture concepts of identity

He came to Canada in 1958 where he taught at McMaster (1961-66)

Chekhov’s Ryabovitch

The King himself puts in a cameo appearance at a rural Quebec Gas-Bar de la Nuit where the glowing ends of several dozen cigarettes counterpoint an urgent bass line to the syncopated doo-wap of several tens of thousands of fireflies

including One Way Ticket (1961)

James Reaney on the Grid Poetry Aqueous by Nathanael Jones isA deep dive into the influences, patterns and structures that underscore the foundation of the literary works of James Reaney, whose poems and plays marry myth and metaphor with a regional, rural sensibility. Set up a trellis for flowering plants to climb all over: its there but unseen, supporting all that floral leaf green beauty. In James Reaney on the Grid, Stan Dragland examines an artist fiercely loyal to his artistic practice, deploying the