Then Now - by Daphne Marlatt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>A lyrical exploration of memory, family, catastrophe, immigration, and colonialism, <em>Then Now</em> was inspired by the discovery of letters written by Daphne Marlatt's father, Arthur Buckle, who left England in the early 1930s to join a British accounting firm in multiracial Penang, Malaysia. He continued living and working there until taking leave in 1941, returning after WW II, whose looming threat striates his early letters, and staying until 1951. Decades after the letters' composition, Marlatt began writing poems in response to them, interwoven with memories they provoked from her post-war childhood there. These poems are written from a sense of place and home on Canada's West Coast now on the brink of another catastrophe, global climate change, so that throughout the book, "There Then" permeates any "Here Now" of immigrant consciousness and highlights the impermanent quality of "home."<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"How wonderful is it to be a poet and invent such useful and meaningful words as "otherwhere" or "betweenships"? Marlatt takes full advantage of her licence to play with words and syntax so as to conflate time and sense."<br/>--Phyllis Reeve, the <em>Ormsby Review</em></p> --Phyllis Reeve "the Ormsby Review"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Daphne Marlatt was at the centre of the West Coast poetry movement of the 1960s, studying at the University of British Columbia and with many of Donald Allen's New American Poets, most notably Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan. Her early literary associations with the loosely affiliated Tish group encouraged her non-conformist approach to language and form. Her unique disposition toward language shapes and is shaped by her commitment to exploring and honouring silenced histories and experiences. For her, writing has been a lifelong ethical project, deeply engaged with feminism, immigrant experiences, and ecological issues. Her innovations in the prose poem form have influenced an entire generation (and beyond) of Canadian poets.
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