Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now

In her re-vision of Vancouver Poems, originally published in 1972, Daphne Marlatt’s additional lyrics trace countless transformations of a West Coast port city. In Vancouver’s fast-moving, realty-driven reality, global business is conducted over liquid lunches and in the midst of mounting social crises, including poverty, addiction, and homelessness.

Daphne Marlatt began her writing career at the center of the West Coast poetry movement of the 1960s, studying with many of Donald Allen’s New American Poets, most notably Robert Creeley. Much of her postmodernist writing is attuned to the adjustments, struggles, and accomplishments of immigrants.