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In some ways it sets up my method…”  Speaks of Nō plays, the central figure of spirit plays, the shīte.\n\t\t057\tRe/ the Kwakiutl and the Hamatsa society\n\t\t071\t“Wet fur wavers” (“A Spanish Banks poem”)\n\t\t089\tThis is about the old public library, the Carnegie Library… located in the heart of skid row…”\n\t\t094\t“Slimey…”\n\t\t128\t“’It’s rained…’”\n\t\t151\t“One last one that connects with the Kwakiutl Hamats’a society re/ “Baxbakaulany Xsuve” – the original spirit who informed the Hamats’a who gave them their cannibal rite… The first one to eat man at the mouth of the river” (see notes at back of Vancouver poems)\n\t\t191\t“This is dedicated to: ‘Aloazar, Cecil, Belmont, New Fountain, names/ stations of the way, to/Entrances’”\n\t\t228\t“Little poems for my niece who has a thing about bugs… so I wrote these four poems to explain to her what it was like to be a bug…”\n\t\t232\t“Bugs in the heart (for Karen)”\n\t\t246\t“Agenda”\n\t\t253\t“Points west or southwest…” (small break in sound)\n\t\t263\t“Depressed/area space/lived in…”\n\t\t271\tSmall drop in volume, up again by 275\n\t\t280\t“Bird of passage” (“a poem I wrote when I was 7 or 8 months pregnant”)\n\t\t317\tThe original Vancouver poem… “Old bird…”\n\t\t342\t“About Vancouver’s first in 1886… there are a lot of quotes in here and… all of them are taken from a historical journal put out by the city archives… concerned with W.H. Gallagher’s eyewitness account.”\n\t\t358\t“’Our city is ashes…’”\n\t\t400\t“This is Bowen Island: ‘Bowen.  Leaving snug coves behind…’”\n\t\t429\t“I knew there was a bridge in Vancouver with a jack-knife span that opened like London Bridge… it began to be confused in my mind with the old Second Narrows Bridge…”\n\t\t441\tYour/gray-green fathoms un/fathomed…”\n\t\t479\t“This is also a skid row poem.  It’s a combination of present and past…”\n\t\t498\t“Trails…”\n\t\t527\tSound ends after poem “Trails” finishes."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Liner Notes: Daphne Marlatt Reading at Richard Pender Books Side 1: 29:15 Side 2: Blank Dolby B\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670554736787457,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T14:59:59.119Z","score":2.882305}]