Rivering
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Rivering

The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt

  1. 96 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Rivering

The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt

About this book

Opening doors, dreaming awake, tracing networks of music and meaning, Marlatt's poetry stands out as an essential engagement with what matters to anyone writing with a social-environmental conscience. Rivering includes poems inspired by the village of Steveston where, before the war, a Japanese-Canadian community lived within the rhythms of salmon on the Fraser River delta. Also gathered into Rivering: lesbian love poetry from Touch to my Tongue; a transformance of Nicole Brossard's Mauve; passages from The Given, winner of the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; a traditional "Kuri" song from the Noh drama, The Gull; and an unpublished excerpt from the chamber opera "Shadow Catch."

Difficult, beautiful, heart-breaking realities of the twenty-first century are urgently immediate in selections from Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now. All of the poems speak to Marlatt's poetics of place and of language as passage between distant or disparate human beings, and between human beings and the more-than-human world. The selections are framed by Susan Knutson's deeply attentive critical introduction and by Marlatt's "immediacies of writing," a new lyrical essay investigating the act of writing. Closing with a walking meditation situated by her Buddhist practice, Rivering is both a "pocket Marlatt" and an introduction to one of the best poets of our time.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Biographical Note
  5. Introduction: Daphne Marlatt’s Embodied Language Poetics
  6. Street opera
  7. Coming in, who
  8. June near the river Clyst, Clust, clear. Clystmois this holding wet & clear
  9. Combe Martin, house martin,Martinmas, Saint Martin, martial swords & plowshares
  10. Avebury awi-spek, winged from buried (egg
  11. Litter. wreckage. salvage
  12. Ghost
  13. “Slave of the canneries”
  14. Winter / rice / tea strain
  15. Here
  16. This place full of contradiction
  17. Prairie
  18. Kore
  19. “Two women in a birth”
  20. “Imagin-a-nation in the heart of”
  21. There is a door
  22. Shrimping
  23. from Mauve
  24. Small print i
  25. Small print iii
  26. Small print v
  27. Booking passage
  28. In the current
  29. Generation, generations at the mouth
  30. Complicated
  31. Years ago
  32. Singing grass
  33. You remember
  34. Walking out
  35. Tree-song
  36. “Spectacular”
  37. To navigate
  38. Comes walking
  39. Marine, ah
  40. Through cloud
  41. Lift. step. drop.
  42. Afterword: Immediacies of Writing,
  43. Acknowledgements