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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... wrote a PhD thesis about the Canadian prairies and I had a poster on my office wall in the early 1970s that waved a flag and urged READ CANADIAN . In the 1990s I compiled a small book entirely devoted to an American poet ( David Wagoner ) ...
... wrote a PhD thesis about the Canadian prairies and I had a poster on my office wall in the early 1970s that waved a flag and urged READ CANADIAN . In the 1990s I compiled a small book entirely devoted to an American poet ( David Wagoner ) ...
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... wrote excitedly in his journal ( McKelvey 328 ) . And so begins the troping of salal : this shrub will stand , in many instances , for an over- whelming greenness and impenetrable growth . Trask encounters salal twelve feet high ( Don ...
... wrote excitedly in his journal ( McKelvey 328 ) . And so begins the troping of salal : this shrub will stand , in many instances , for an over- whelming greenness and impenetrable growth . Trask encounters salal twelve feet high ( Don ...
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... wrote , with James Stevens , titled Status Rerum : A Manifesto , Upon the Present Condition of Northwest Literature Containing Several Near - Libelous Utterances , Upon Persons in the Public Eye ( 1927 ) . Glen A. Love's " Stemming the ...
... wrote , with James Stevens , titled Status Rerum : A Manifesto , Upon the Present Condition of Northwest Literature Containing Several Near - Libelous Utterances , Upon Persons in the Public Eye ( 1927 ) . Glen A. Love's " Stemming the ...
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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