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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Page 137
... moves , pauses , moves again where shore and sky engage . Its moment hangs like the earliest pleasure , heron's blue dark on thin water there , and wings , like wings of the hurrying sky . ~ Kenneth MacLean " Blue Heron's Sky ...
... moves , pauses , moves again where shore and sky engage . Its moment hangs like the earliest pleasure , heron's blue dark on thin water there , and wings , like wings of the hurrying sky . ~ Kenneth MacLean " Blue Heron's Sky ...
Page 144
Reading the Pacific Northwest Laurence Ricou. moves with equal frenzy and grace on land , on water , in the air . And ... move- ments of the sea . Topaz lies in bed : we read this description , first reproduced in the man- uscript version ...
Reading the Pacific Northwest Laurence Ricou. moves with equal frenzy and grace on land , on water , in the air . And ... move- ments of the sea . Topaz lies in bed : we read this description , first reproduced in the man- uscript version ...
Page 184
... move us back into the book , into the human articulation , into the research diary that dared to think of salal as a ... moves us out of the book to look and look still more closely — and to touch and taste . It challenges the student of ...
... move us back into the book , into the human articulation , into the research diary that dared to think of salal as a ... moves us out of the book to look and look still more closely — and to touch and taste . It challenges the student of ...
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