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 78
... one's face and which clung to water - resistant garments like dew on a leaf . The temperature was around forty and the clammy chill of the air seeped through the out- ercoats and past the undergar- ments and sucked the warmth from the ...
... one's face and which clung to water - resistant garments like dew on a leaf . The temperature was around forty and the clammy chill of the air seeped through the out- ercoats and past the undergar- ments and sucked the warmth from the ...
Page 119
... one's life is spent . I think it is possible here , where so much of our history is in our trees , to feel more strongly toward them than seems quite proper else- where . ( And that improper depth of emotion is true for the logger as ...
... one's life is spent . I think it is possible here , where so much of our history is in our trees , to feel more strongly toward them than seems quite proper else- where . ( And that improper depth of emotion is true for the logger as ...
Page 159
... one's own , a dis- tinguishing characteristic : a small tree peculiar to the Pacific Northwest , peculiar in its aes- thetic associations with oriental and strawberry . unlikely combination of colours and textures , Narrows . eral ...
... one's own , a dis- tinguishing characteristic : a small tree peculiar to the Pacific Northwest , peculiar in its aes- thetic associations with oriental and strawberry . unlikely combination of colours and textures , Narrows . eral ...
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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