The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific NorthwestThis lively and perceptive look at the literature of the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest explores the dynamics of the cross-border region using resonant quotations, poetry, song lyrics, and art to demonstrate and enhance Laurie Ricou's critical readings and ideas. |
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... heart , in systolic and diastolic pulse , nourishing one community of two parts , separate but organically interdependent . she is so many women with a common universal experience. The trope of absence was one of their most powerful ...
... heart , in systolic and diastolic pulse , nourishing one community of two parts , separate but organically interdependent . she is so many women with a common universal experience. The trope of absence was one of their most powerful ...
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... heart in a steep place with her wild ways , he could , and did , thank her for this moment " ( 101 ) . Unlike the more subtle and continuous fusion of writer's and sub- jects ' perceptions in Sheila Watson's The Double Hook , the ...
... heart in a steep place with her wild ways , he could , and did , thank her for this moment " ( 101 ) . Unlike the more subtle and continuous fusion of writer's and sub- jects ' perceptions in Sheila Watson's The Double Hook , the ...
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... heart and pearly everlasting , and the carrion weed with its death - scented bloom " ( 140 ) . Kesey does not pause after this list — even in this novel of paus- es , digressions , echoes , and overlaps - to mull over the texture of ...
... heart and pearly everlasting , and the carrion weed with its death - scented bloom " ( 140 ) . Kesey does not pause after this list — even in this novel of paus- es , digressions , echoes , and overlaps - to mull over the texture of ...
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Afterfile Anthology arbutus arbutus/madrone Asian BC Studies berries blue heron border boundary Bringhurst British Columbia Canada Canadian Literature Cascadia cedar Chinook colour cross-border culture David David James Duncan David Wagoner ecological edge Emily Carr Erks Essays Excerpt fiction File fish Folklore forest Grainger green Hodgins Hodgins's imagine Indian intertidal Jack Jack Hodgins Japanese Keeble Keeble's Ken Kesey Kesey Collection Kesey's land landscape language literary living loggers madrone maps Marlatt metaphor migration mother mountain narrative Nations Native No-No Boy North Northwest writing novel Obasan ocean Okada oral Oregon Pacific Northwest permission place names Plate poem poet political rain Raven reader region reminder Richard Hugo River Robert Robert Bringhurst salal salmon Sasquatch Seattle sense silence Steveston story talk tell tion Tom Robbins Toronto translation tree Trower Washington West Coast Winter woodswords words Yellowfish York