Beschreibung:
Daphne Marlatt was born in Melbourne in 1941 and spent much of her childhood in Malaysia before emigrating to Canada in 1951. Marlatt was at the centre of the West Coast poetry movement of the 1960s, studying at the University of British Columbia and with many of Donald Allen¿s New American Poets, most notably Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan. Much of her postmodernist writing would be attuned to the adjustments, struggles, and accomplishments of immigrants. While Marlatt attended UBC (1960¿1964), her literary associations with the loosely affiliated Tish group encouraged her non-conformist approach to language and etymological explorations.
The love poems in "This Tremor Love Is" span 25 years, from Marlatt's first writing to its most recent sequences.