The winter 1998 issue of MANOA features a collection of nature writing guest-edited by Charlene Gilmore. Focusing on Western Canada, this feature includes poetry by Jan Zwicky, Tim Lilburn, Elizabeth Philips, Charles Lillard, and Monty Reid; fiction by Kevin Van Tighem and Susan Haley; and essays by Theresa Kishkan, Don Gayton, Dave Carpenter, Sid Marty, and Alan Haig-Brown.
Also in this issue: an interview with Indian fiction writer Bharati Mukherjee; new translations of poems by Ayukawa Nobuo; fiction by Hawai‘i writer Cedric Yamanaka; essays by Ken Lamberton and Dorie Bargmann; “Brief Lives,” a collection of short memoirs by Leon Edel, Marjorie Sinclair, Virgil Suarez, Gao Da, Kimiko Hahn, and others; and “Stories in the Stepmother Tongue,” a collection of fiction by writers whose native language is not English.
INLAND
SHORES
Winter
1998 (vol. 10, no. 2 )
218 pages
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Various Articles at Nootka Sound. 1778. Nootka Sound (King George Sound), Vancouver Island, S.W. British Columbia, Canada. Engraving by John Record after drawings by John Webber. The articles: 1.
A bird, made of wood; hollow, with stones
in the inside, which the natives shake
when they dance. PL. 40 |
earth and the river
gave me a rag, a leg bone to hold.
We looked into one another's
face. Don't say I'm here.
I am feverish with grass.
A dark in things, in wild rose,
a stalk, a line coming out of the
mouth and
curving, is weight, privacy, sleep,
a cache of fat
the seeable thing sucks on, turns to and
lives with.”
—from “Slow World” by Tim Lilburn
“Aunt Dot stood upon the stone threshold and pointed out landmarks. She recalled how my grandfather, John Claude, plowed one field with a team of horses, and how my grandmother, born Ora Zook, of resolute Pennsylvania-Dutch stock, plowed the other. Glancing down, I saw broken fragments of Delft china glinting in the grass, reminders of my grandmother’s vanished kitchen. Father recalled the night the house burned to the ground, when mice, chewing on matches, set the place on fire. It was he who first woke to sound the alarm. How do you get eight kids out of a burning shack? Grandfather picked up my uncle Walter, then a toddler, and simply threw him out through the front window, glass and all. As they recalled that night, I looked down and saw, shining among the sage, pieces of broken, melted glass, coloured with time.”
—from
“Where the Deer and
Antelope Play” by Sid Marty
“We make a ceremony of the season’s first salmon, cooking it outside
and inviting friends to share the meal. I use a variation of Susan Musgrave’s
recipe: instead of marinating fillets in a dish, I brush the marinade
over a whole five- to seven-pound sockeye laid out on heavy foil, putting
lots of marinade in the body cavity. I then let it sit for an afternoon
in the fridge. It takes about forty minutes to cook on a fairly low barbeque
and tastes like the northern rivers: wild and sweet on the tongue. There’s
seldom any left: every morsel is plucked from the skeleton until the backbone
lies on the platter like a delicate comb.
Grilled Pacific Northwest Salmon
1/2 C unsalted
butter
1/3 C honey
1/3 C brown sugar
2 T freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 t natural liquid-smoke flavouring
3/4 t crushed red-pepper flakes
pinch of allspice (optional)
2 LB salmon fillets, skin on, in two pieces
Combine all ingredients but salmon in saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring, for about 5 minutes or until smooth. Cool to room temperature. Arrange the salmon in a dish just large enough to hold it. Pour the cooled marinade over it and let stand for 15 minutes. Turn, baste with marinade, and let stand for another 15 minutes. Prepare hot coals for grilling (or gas barbeque). Oil the grill well and cook the salmon, skin side up, over medium heat, for 5-7 minutes. Turn and cook until fish flakes easily, about another 5-7 minutes. Transfer fish to a platter and serve immediately.”
—from
“Marine Air: Thinking about Fish, Weather,
and Coastal Stories” by Theresa Kishkan
