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 108
... turning over as a theme , and as a principle of construction : Salt water came from his eyes , And he turned over and over . He turned into it . So he turns the words over and over as salmon and people and river fuse in ecological inter ...
... turning over as a theme , and as a principle of construction : Salt water came from his eyes , And he turned over and over . He turned into it . So he turns the words over and over as salmon and people and river fuse in ecological inter ...
Page 115
... turns its stones like a nesting bird From hollow to hollow . Now gulls and ravens Turn to the salmon stranded among branches . They lie in the clear shallows , the barely dead , While some still beat their flanks white for the spawning ...
... turns its stones like a nesting bird From hollow to hollow . Now gulls and ravens Turn to the salmon stranded among branches . They lie in the clear shallows , the barely dead , While some still beat their flanks white for the spawning ...
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... turn , and turn again , to their work . But learning with also cautions that the affiliations I have culti- vated by placing these specific writers in these particular files grows a sub - species of region- alism that may thrive in some ...
... turn , and turn again , to their work . But learning with also cautions that the affiliations I have culti- vated by placing these specific writers in these particular files grows a sub - species of region- alism that may thrive in some ...
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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