Marilyn Bowering's new book of poems weaves beautiful meditations on absences and loss with personal, local and cultural memories that point to the emergence of the past into the present. The poems awaken transformative interconnections between literature, ecology, civilization, history and personal critique. A story of acknowledgment and restoration is being told from various points of view and identities, from vanished figures from a Victoria childhood,...

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