Daphne marlatt biography

Daphne Marlatt, born Buckle, CM (born July 11, 1942 in Melbourne, Australia), is a.
Daphne Marlatt (née Buckle), CM, poet, novelist, editor, playwright (born 11 July 1942 in Melbourne, Australia).
Daphne Marlatt, born Buckle, CM, is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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BIO

Biography

Daphne Marlatt lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was born in 1942 in Melbourne, Australia, and immigrated to Canada in 1951 from Malaysia. She studied writing and English at the University of British Columbia (B.A., 1964), and comparative literature at Indiana University (M.A., 1968). She is a poet, novelist, theorist, Noh playwright, and retired university instructor (creative writing, women's studies, and contemporary literature). She is the founding co-editor of Tessera, the bilingual journal of feminist theory, and has co-edited several other magazines. Since the 1980s, she has served as writer-in-residence at numerous universities across Canada and mentored at Sage Hill (Saskatchewan) and the Banff Centre for the Arts, Writing Studio.

ADDRESS

City: Vancouver, Province/Territory: BC

PUBLICATIONS

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Daphne Marlatt

How put together a narrative of brightly coloured bits turned, turning as if to focus, and the falling patterns then. Beautiful forms. Illusions of continuity, of completion, made by mirrors.
—Daphne Marlatt, Taken 26

Marlatt is self-reflexively a West Coast, deconstructionist, lesbian and feminist writer. She has published more than twenty books that are hybrid forms of poetry, autobiography, prose, travelogue, essay, theory, historical fiction, history, journal, theory, and manifesto. She typically deploys long lines of internal dialogue and narrative poetry arranged into what she calls "stanzagraphs." She favours etymological deconstruction and wordplay. Her preoccupations are largely local, historical, feminist, and post-colonial.

Daphne Marlatt (née Buckle) was born in 1942 to British expatriates and spent her early childhood in Australia and Malaysia. Her family immigrated to Canada when she was nine years old, in 1951, settling in North Vancouver. Throughout her body of work Canada’s West Coast, Vancouver, the city of Penang in Malaysia, and England all

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Daphne Marlatt Biography

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(1942– ), Touch to My Tongue, Steveston, Zocalo, How Hug a Stone, Frames, Leaf/leafs, Rings

Canadianpoet, born in Melbourne, Australia; she moved with her family to Vancouver in 1951, later attending the Universities of British Columbia and Indiana. Marlatt's poetry is influenced by French feminist linguistic theory and the work of some of her Quebec women contemporaries; her concern with showing how personality and gender identity are constructed by language is particularly evident in Touch to My Tongue (1984). Steveston (1974) is a discontinuous long poem that, in part, offers a social history of a small Japanese fishing town in British Columbia, but at the same time questions the very mode of documentary that it employs by constantly emphasizing the writer's involvement in creating the world of the poem. Much of Marlatt's work, including her Mexican ‘novel’ Zocalo (1977) and How Hug a Stone (1983), an account of a journey to England with her son to rediscover the maternal side of her family, mixes travel-journal a