Rain Shadow is a collection of poetry that explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and humans yearning to connect with something greater than themselves. The poems range through destabilized lives and landscapes, fathoming presence and absence, transformation and oblivion. They outline the major questions of our time as the poet crisscrosses western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Witty, playful, serious, and heartsore, Rain Shadow seeks to understand the space in which people and nature are inextricably entwined.
I walk like a bear—
I have a bear’s gait—
but the gate to the bear’s mind is closed.
—from “The Bear and the Wind”
- ISBN10 1772123706
- ISBN13 9781772123708
- Publish Date 21 February 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of Alberta Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 120
- Language English