Rivering

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781771120401

<p> 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. <i>Rivering</i> 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 <i>Rivering</i>: lesbian love poetry from <i>Touch to my Tongue</i>; a transformance of Nicole Brossard’s <i>Mauve</i>; passages from <i>The Given</i>, winner of the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; a traditional “Kuri” song from the Noh drama, <i>The Gull</i>; and an unpublished excerpt from the chamber opera “Shadow Catch.” </p> <p> Difficult, beautiful, heart-breaking realities of the twenty-first century are urgently immediate in selections from <i>Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now</i>. 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, <i>Rivering</i> is both a “pocket Marlatt” and an introduction to one of the best poets of our time. </p>