"In “Imagining the Place of Books,” one of the pieces in this unique anthology, Smithers writer Alan Pickard says, “Most librarians know you form children and adults by what you hide from them. If you don’t let them read they’ll turn sour and never see words as miracles. Only as explanations.” For the sake of miracles, then, Creekstone Press has published creekstones: words & images, a collection of work by 27 writers and seven photographers from the Skeena River Basin in northwest British Columbia. From North Beach on Haida Gwaii, to a plastic bag barrio in Chiapas, from the frantic heart of Vancouver to a peony garden at Meach Lake, the writing in this collection reflects the work of established and emerging artists as they blend language and landscape."--
Record details
ISBN:0968404332
ISBN:9780968404331
Physical Description:236 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. print
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:Smithers, British Columbia : Creekstone Press, 2000.
Creekstones -- Contributors' Notes -- WORDS : Fiction : The Belair Breach Bar Roundup / Sheila Peters -- Distance Education / Gillian Campbell -- Imagining the Place of Books / Alan Pickard -- The Crossing Dance / Angela Dorsey -- Dolores / Grace Hols -- Wings & Feathers / Nancy Robertson -- Walter's Folly / Iain Lawrence -- Naming / Jean Rysstad // Non-fiction : Being Frank's Sister / Val Napoleon -- Doing Nothing in Chiapas / Heather Ramsay -- Je Me Souviens / Alex Merrill // Poetry : Grandpa's First Wife -- Hector -- Oruro Farmer -- A Place Away -- Your Dream -- Coming Home / Marc Arellano -- but I am not lost / Brydon Giesbrecht -- A Dream of Fish -- The Limbic Journal -- Guys and Tools / Ken Belford -- Close of the Season -- Winter Lifescape -- Red Sand Lake / Leanne Boschman-Epp -- front page / Emily Kendy -- a love poem for lynn -- still life with ravens -- Winter -- Considering my wheelbarrow -- kindred flesh/ Sheila Peters -- Joe -- A Pilgrim's Progress / George Loset -- Haiku -- this is January / Alex Merrill -- another passing -- What I know About Spiders -- edge -- poem caught in the web -- Untitles / Leslie Barnwell -- the problem with birds -- this is how it goes -- passing -- love poem number four -- the journey begins -- creekstone -- Wild Cranberries / Alan Pickard -- Four Times / Ross Hoffman -- Kincolith / Edward Epp -- Heart to Hear -- Dishwashers -- Minutes / Catherine Quanstrom -- Releasing Spirits -- Grandmother's Peonies / Ruth Murdoch -- Forgetting -- That Summer -- small compulsions / Judy McCloskey -- A River Song / Mark Perry -- Five Metaphors -- A Perfect Day -- Lorenzo's Oil / Tom Buri -- House with bottle-trees, Simpson Country -- Woman Descending the Stairs -- you don't know -- What is large can also be tender -- above all -- Dim Sum without you -- Now the glad bulbs / Jeanie Elsner -- Ocean Winter -- 3268 Wicklow St. / Taisa Jenne -- the inch / Paul Dwyer // & images : portfolios : Ted Nugent -- Meg Hobson -- Lorne Clarker -- Roger Benham -- Alec Deas -- Nancy Roberson -- Myron Kozak.
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