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list price: $20
edition:Paperback
category: Literary Criticism
published: Oct 2010
ISBN:9781897535295
publisher:
Anvil Press
Description
Providing new insights into how vividly local - but never far removed from cosmopolitan developments - the region's literary production has been, the collection features archival references to a constellation of the area's essential literary figures. The fifteen essays by established and newer voices examine creation myths among West Coast literary institutions, gender roles, and ethnicity in the region's expanding literary community, critical challenges to nationalist and ecological traditions, and also pay homage to some of our celebrated elders, including Earle Birney, George Woodcock, Robin Blaser, and P.K. Page, among many others from the 1950s onward.
CONTRIBUTIONS BY: Carolyn Zonailo, George Mcwhirter, Judith Copithorne, Susan McCaslin, Hilary Turner, Joseph Blake, Michael Barnholden, Colin James Sanders, Mike Doyle, Frances Cabahug, Paul Falardeau, Chelsea Thornton, Martin Van Woudenberg, Ron Dart, Trevor Carolan
Contributor Notes
Trevor Carolan began writing for newspapers at 17 and is a widely-travelled literary journalist, poet and critic. He has visited more than 50 countries and his books include New World Dharma; In Formless Circumstance, Road Poems; The Literary Storefront; Return to Stillness: Twenty Years with a Tai Chi Master; and Giving Up Poetry: With Allen Ginsberg at Hollyhock. He served as an elected municipal councillor in North Vancouver following campaigns on behalf of B.C. Indigenous land claims and watershed conservation issues, and is Professor Emeritus with the School of Land Use and Environmental Change at University of the Fraser Valley near Vancouver. His new travel book is Road Trips: Journeys in the Unspoiled World (Mother Tongue). More at www.trevorcarolan.com
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age:
- 15
- Grade:
- 10
