The Contemporary Canadian Poem Anthology
- 371 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Daphne Marlatt Bücher
Diese kanadische Autorin, ursprünglich aus Malaysia, erforscht weibliche Erfahrungen über verschiedene Zeitperioden und Kulturen hinweg. Ihre Werke zeichnen sich oft durch offene Strukturen und Echos weiblicher Geschichten aus, was ihre Faszination für die Möglichkeiten der Romanform widerspiegelt. Als Dichterin im Herzen schreibt sie in Sequenzen und versucht, die Ungeschriebenes und kulturell Überformtes des weiblichen Daseins einzufangen. Ihr Ansatz ist von feministischer Literatur beeinflusst und zielt darauf ab, traditionelle literarische Genres kritisch zu untersuchen und zu erweitern.
Then Now
- 112 Seiten
- 4 Lesestunden
From one of Canada's most influential poets, poems written in response to the discovery of letters by her father. These poems explore a sense of place and home on Canada's West Coast now on the brink of global climate change. "There Then" permeates any "Here Now" of immigrant consciousness and highlights the impermanent quality of "home."
Noh-influenced libretto by renowned Canadian poet Daphne Marlatt The Noh-influenced libretto of Shadow Catch recounts the dreams - or are they dreams? - of the Runaway, a teenage boy who ends up one night in Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Here four troubled spirits from the park's past appear to him: the Spirit of the Maple Tree from K'emk'emeláy̓ whose grove was decimated by loggers, a member of the brilliant Asahi baseball team whose players were sent off to Japanese internment camps, the keeper of a 1920s brothel who is haunted by the tragic death of one of "her" women, and a roughneck policeman from the 1930s who gave in to corruption. This is a story not only about characters from Vancouver's historical and cultural past, but about the journey and transformation that must take place in order to confront one's greatest fears and regrets. Each of the four acts in this sparse, poetic libretto were set to music by composers Dorothy Chang, Benton Roark, Jennifer Butler, and Farshid Samandari. Replete with contextual material, this book includes brief histories of species interconnectedness in the park, the Asahi baseball team, Vancouver's early red-light district, and the Battle of Ballantyne Pier.