Salvage
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Good fit if you want...
- You follow Daphne Marlatt's experimental lyric and Canadian West Coast settings.
- You enjoy concise prose-poems and place-based meditations under 150 pages.
- When you want immersive details, the narrative rarely stalls and keeps tension high.
Maybe skip if...
- You expect a conventional linear narrative or plot-driven novel.
- You prefer long expository essays to fragmentary, poetic sequences.
- You only want something with very current references and examples.
Summary
Salvage collects Marlatt's fragmentary lyrics and prose-poems that excavate Vancouver's edges, caregiving, and language itself; the short book reads like a stitched map of moments and speech acts.
Edition on file: 2002 • Red Deer Pr • 120 pages • ISBN 9780889950740.
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Why this book now
Marlatt's attention to place, domestic labor, and linguistic repair in Salvage feels urgent for readers revisiting late-20th-century West Coast poetics and feminist lyric now.
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Quick Easy to move through
At roughly 120 pages, Salvage is a short, focused read best savored in multiple brief sittings to let individual fragments settle.
What stands out here
This Red Deer Press edition foregrounds Marlatt's late-career lyric economy and attention to speech and place across compact sections.
Best way to approach it
Approach Salvage slowly: read a section aloud or pause between fragments to trace recurring images of Vancouver, caregiving, and language.
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