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That novelists' publisher need not be concerned for the title of that author's most recent novel being "Fatherland"  — at least not in French and Russian translations.

Vladimir Kornilov's poem, спор, makes this very clear ( I think the title of that poem should be "Indisputable" ) in arguing ( after a fashion ) that the state is power, but the motherland is something quite other ... rather like the Lithuania imagined in the poems of the late Czesław Miłosz, I imagine.

cp: Batkivshchyna / Батьківщина as 'our native land' ( The Nfld equivalent for their 'race' ? )

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NetFlix Canada Indigo Howl Howitzer

The careers link at NetFlix.ca reminds me of the poetry section at the Chapters store in the Regent Mall here in Fred'town.  Maybe Melville, NY is near Yorktown, NY ;-)

The single section of poetry in the retail outlet of what is now Canada's book chain had a striking resemblance to that in an American chain - the multiple copies of the collected Allen Ginsberg, the multiple volumes of Charles Bukowski ... the one diference, the one row of ( English ) Canadian poetry on the top shelf ( in a town with two universities) - and that was chiefly Leonard Cohen.  I should have checked if Margaret Atwood was shelved below in speak-American having been pained to find her opening the slim "Best of 2009" high up on that top shelf.

But the day's outing ended with a more amusing moment: I saw that there are two cannons in front of the Legion just as there are two cannons in front of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery ( I kid you not ... one of the latter is a 1944 USA howitzer.)  And Ginsberg?