Cascadia: The Life and Breath of the World

Series Editor Frank Stewart.
Guest Editor Trevor Carolan.

Cascadia is a major collection of contemporary eco-literature featuring many of the most distinguished names in the field: Gary Snyder, Robert Bringhurst, Wade Davis, Hugh Brody, Susan Musgrave, Barry Lopez, Charles Lillard, and Rex Weyler, cofounder of Greenpeace. Included is a powerful contingent of indigenous writers: Chief Dan George, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle, Richard Van Camp, Richard Wagamese, Chief William Sepass, and Louis Owens. Also in the volume is a solid gathering of poets and essayists: Judith Roche, Theresa Kishkan, Eve Joseph, Jan Zwicky, Mike O’Connor, Red Pine, Robert Rice, John Schreiber, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Sculptor, poet, and essayist Tom Jay writes about salmon as Cascadian icon and poetic metaphor. Architect Rob Sieniuc, who works in the Yukon with First Nations communities, has an essay on the influence of Chief Dan George on his generation of eco-design builders. Artist Emily Carr is represented by two prose pieces and sketches from her journals of travels among First Nations villages.

Special thanks to the University of the Fraser Valley for generous publication support of this volume.

Shown below, the back cover has a painting of a mask by Albert Grünwedel, ca. 1894, with field notes by Franz Boas and song text.

240 pp., summer 2013 (25:1), $20
ISBN 978-0-8248-3936-9
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