Into
a remarkable meeting of words I happened, invited by a chapbook launch, by
people and their books. My own proper tale grew its covers before I knew much
about the story we were in, but the words catching my first look with their
fishing nets winked and nodded. Now how far back the words go waves all its
people like twined fingers exposed inside two hands, twined laurels or other
braided plants of feats the tale’s people achieve for it. So many people in
forty years to know inside those hand bindings and Proper Tales offers the
records that keep marking people and books that I’m sure don’t behave properly
to sit still for the picture to capture or remark them. I’m sure the Proper
Tales people are in each other’s books, reading each other. Stuart Ross gets
people reading each other with poems who participate in book recommendation and
bibliography. How many words’ nets I am wearing now for reading them! Proper
Tales makes me want to know all the ways to not sit still the people and their
words have found. But I don’t have the retrospective perspective. This is an
anticipation.
Dale Tracy teaches in the Department of English, Culture, and Communication and is currently the Associate Chair of the Writing Centre at the Royal Military College of Canada. The focus of her scholarly work varies as much as her curiosity, but poetry is one of her favourite areas of specialty. She wrote the monograph With the Witnesses: Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience (McGill-Queen’s, 2017) and the four-poem chapoem What It Satisfies (Puddles of Sky Press, 2016). She is the author of the Proper Tales Press title Celebration Machine (2018).
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