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 129
... poet's docu- mentary impulse and the banging verbal nois- iness of Swanson . The phrase " lying a mean lick " has per- haps the most potential in the poem . The Shorter OED suggests the dialect association of this term with a spurt of ...
... poet's docu- mentary impulse and the banging verbal nois- iness of Swanson . The phrase " lying a mean lick " has per- haps the most potential in the poem . The Shorter OED suggests the dialect association of this term with a spurt of ...
Page 138
... poet's own spare brushstrokes in blue - gray return me somehow to the new Seattle Art Museum and its small gallery , which I have visited elsewhere in these pages , whose rotating exhibitions are devoted to " Early Modern Art of the ...
... poet's own spare brushstrokes in blue - gray return me somehow to the new Seattle Art Museum and its small gallery , which I have visited elsewhere in these pages , whose rotating exhibitions are devoted to " Early Modern Art of the ...
Page 139
... poet's mother- confuses place and occa- sion . The beiged hue , the tempting non - colour of canvas , reminds of the Northwest palette observed elsewhere in these files : the heron may be blue ( in both senses ) , but the picture in the ...
... poet's mother- confuses place and occa- sion . The beiged hue , the tempting non - colour of canvas , reminds of the Northwest palette observed elsewhere in these files : the heron may be blue ( in both senses ) , but the picture in the ...
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