{"product_id":"rivering-daphne-marlatt-9781771120388","title":"Rivering: The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eRivering\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eRivering\u003c\/i\u003e: lesbian love poetry from \u003ci\u003eTouch to my Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e; a transformance of Nicole Brossard's \u003ci\u003eMauve\u003c\/i\u003e; passages from \u003ci\u003eThe Given\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2009 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; a traditional \"Kuri\" song from the Noh drama, \u003ci\u003eThe Gull\u003c\/i\u003e; and an unpublished excerpt from the chamber opera \"Shadow Catch.\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Difficult, beautiful, heart-breaking realities of the twenty-first century are urgently immediate in selections from \u003ci\u003eLiquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, \u003ci\u003eRivering\u003c\/i\u003e is both a \"pocket Marlatt\" and an introduction to one of the best poets of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daphne Marlatt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 177112038X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771120388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wilfrid Laurier University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Daphne Marlatt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44125344104703,"sku":"9781771120388","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3052110e-9950-446d-8d87-ff7c57d88dff.jpg?v=1687442081","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rivering-daphne-marlatt-9781771120388","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}