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by Irving Layton
“I’m the sort of girl
you must first tell you love.”
“I love you,” I said.
She gave herself to me then
and I enjoyed her on her perfumed bed.
By the gods, the pleasure in her small
wriggling body was so great,
I had spoken no lecherous falsehood.
Always a page turner, Irving Layton.
We’re in this
together, love,
like a head
in a bear trap
My head
your bear trap.“Tell it to Peggy,” by Irving Layton
(A response to Margaret Atwood’s “You Fit Into Me”)
Canadian legend, A.M. Klein. Klein was the first Jew in Canada to be published in English and also the first Jew to win the Governor General’s award in 1948. In his book The Street, Mordecai Richler recalls raising money as a child for Klein to go on the radio in support of the creation of Israel. His poetry inspired the likes of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen, both great Canadian poets themselves.
“Shall I make this next one out to ‘Leonard’?”
Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen at a book signing, 1984.
by Irving Layton
His friends drudged in an airplane factory
The theory of speed was their sweaty talk;
And one who reclaimed rust machinery
Swore men hereafter would not run or walk.
Another crowed, pointing to his watch: “Feet?
As sure as I’m staring at Time’s own face
Our offspring shall be a limbless race,
Hopping in crystal ships from street to street.”
Icarus went on working on his wings.
Really, he despised their tame discussion;
He’d fly, but as a god towards the sun;
And rubbing the strong wax into the strings,
He leaped into the air – to hear the chorus
Of dismayed cries: “You’re bluffing, Icarus!”
I wrote a Marxist critique of this poem (the only poem of Layton’s in the anthology) back in school, which began my on-going love affair with Irving Layton. He is my favourite poet, and, if I may say so, I think you’d really like him. Today is his birthday.
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