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In the language of the Fraser River fishermen, "low water slack" is that particular tide when everything slows down: the wind, the river, even the human heartbeat. It is a time to reflect, to count the stars in Orion's belt, to listen for the slow creak of the heron's wings. During low water slack, the challenges of life on the river give way to something much deeper, and the fishermen find themselves in a world so calm and beautiful that the very water beneath them seems a hushed breath.
At once historical and intensely personal, Low Water Slack takes the reader into a vibrant world populated with such characters as a ghost of a nineteeth-century salmon canner and an 800-pound white sturgeon. Here are infamous moments of BC's past (the Hell's Gate disaster, the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War Two) alongside childhood memories of a first kiss and meditations on the future of West Coast fish stocks. And moving like a quick shadow throughout is the Pacific salmon itself, whose life cycle mirrors and guides the poet's own exploration of mortality.
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Tim Bowling has published numerous poetry collections, including Low Water Slack; Dying Scarlet (winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry); Darkness and Silence (winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry); The Witness Ghost and The Memory Orchard (both nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award); and his Selected Poems (winner of the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize). Bowling's work in poetry and prose has been honoured with two Canadian Authors Association Awards; two Writers Trust of Canada nominations; a Guggenheim Fellowship; five Alberta Book Awards; the Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Award; and a Roderick Haig Brown Award nomination. Bowling served as the 2015 Canadian judge for the Griffin International Poetry Prize.
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Low Water Slack
Editore:
Harbour Pub Co, Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada, 1995
ISBN 10: 0889711615
ISBN 13: 9780889711617
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Soft cover
Prima edizione
Da: Sparkle Books, Calgary, AB, Canada
Valutazione del venditore 2 su 5 stelle
Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Apparent First. Second edition ("motes of dusk" on page 63) of this young fisherman poet whose imagery reflects the salmon, tides and experiences of a wellread summer gilnetter deckhand. This "slim volume" was very well received and went into a second printing. Near fine copy with very slight corner bumps. Some pages have been dogearred, otherwise clean, crisp unblemished copy. "and my father still in the windless night as a figure trapped in Pompeii's lava, only the burning ash of his cigarette visible sometimes falling from his face like a molten tear or fiery mosquito." (from After Proust, p.25). Codice articolo 000950
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