Beschreibung:
One of Canada's most celebrated writers shares a lifetime of poems, short stories, and essays inspired by the Okanagan Valley.
George Bowering was born in Penticton, where his great-grandfather Willis Brinson lived, and Bowering has never been all that far from the Okanagan Valley in his heart and imagination. Early in the twenty-first century, he was made a permanent citizen of Oliver. Bowering has family up and down the Valley, and he goes there as often as he can. He has been asked during his many visits to Okanagan bookstores over the years to publish a collection of his writing about the Valley.
Writing the Okanagan draws on forty books Bowering has published since 1960 – poetry, fiction, history, and some forms he may have invented. Selections from Delsing (1961) and Sticks & Stones (1962) are here, as is “Driving to Kelowna” from The Silver Wire (1966). Other Okanagan towns, among them Rock Creek, Peachland, Vernon, Kamloops, Princeton, and Osoyoos, inspire selections from work published through the 1970s and on to 2013. Fairview, the old mining site near Oliver, is the focus of an excerpt from Caprice (1987, 2010), one volume in Bowering’s trilogy of historical novels. “Desert Elm” takes as its two main subjects the Okanagan Valley and his father, who, as Bowering did, grew up there. With the addition of some previously unpublished works, the reader will find the wonder of the Okanagan here, in both prose and poetry.
IntroductionDelsing (1961)Sticks & Stones (1962)Radio JazzThe Valley (1963)Okanagan StormLocus SolusLocus PrimusPatrolPoints on the Grid (1964)Meta MorphosisThe Man in the Yellow Boots (1965)RechargeThe Silver Wire (1966)Driving to KelownaBaseball (1967)2nd InningThe Gangs of Kosmos (1967)I Don’tAutobiology (1972)The RaspberriesSome DeathsGrowingWorking and WearingThe LakeThe First Two TownsThe Fourth Town The PoolThe JointsFlycatcher (1974)FlycatcherTime and AgainApplesThe Catch (1976)Desert Elm IIDesert Elm VDesert Elm VIIDesert Elm IXDesert Elm XReconsiderations IIProtective Footwear (1978)Re UnionWest Window (1982)Trucking PeachesSmoking Mirror (1982)Calm AfterThe Smooth LoperAt Fairview, Burnt to the EarthA Way With Words (1982)The Memory of Red LaneA Place to Die (1983)A Short StoryCaprice (1987)Urban Snow (1991)Grizzle BoyOliver Community Park 1948The Rain Barrel (1994)The Rain Barrel,Blithe TreesRhode Island RedThe CreatureShoot! (1994)Bowering’s B.C. (1996)Rock CreekEn’owkinBlonds on Bikes (1997)Fall BirdHis Life, a Poem (2000)Winter 1958Winter 1963Spring 1971Winter 1978Fall 1983A Magpie Life (2001)Ewart BoweringDeking Dad Poems for Men Parashoot!Cars (2002)Standing on Richards (2004)The OuthouseLeft Hook (2005)The Autobiographings of Mourning DoveVermeer’s Light (2006)Unlikely Childhood TransculturationCrows in the Wind (2006)I Watched My FatherBaseball Love (2006)Growing up in BaseballEggs in There (2007)I remember going to churchI remember being in the back seatValley (2008)The Box (2009)An Experimental StoryHorizontal Surfaces (2010)LawrenceThe Diamond Alphabet (2011)BabeDonkeysOkanaganWords, Words, Words (2012)The Family SonPinboy (2012)Teeth (2013)Tie Six Events to Make a Poet (2015)The Giant SnowballSomeone’s Horse
