Rivering: The Poetry of Daphne Marlatt

By Daphne Marlatt

“Litter. wreckage. salvage” is one of the first poems to signal Marlatt’s lifelong commitment to witnessing the stories of Steveston where, before the war, a Japanese-Canadian fishing community lived within the rhythms of salmon on the Fraser River delta. The poem also registers the young poet’s growing engagement with issues of gender and exploitation. These themes, as well as the theme of government-legislated dispossession in the wartime internment of Japanese-Canadians, continues through the Steveston poems “Ghost” and “Slave of the canneries.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Release date: Apr 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781771120395

Daphne Marlatt

Daphne Marlatt is the author of the novels Ana Historic and Taken. She has published numerous collections of poetry, including Steveston and The Given, which won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 2006, she was appointed to the Order of Canada. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.