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Issue 3.5

Spring 2008: The Sharon Thesen Issue

Editor: Jenny Penberthy

Daphne Marlatt interviews Sharon Thesen. Essays by Colin Browne, Ted Byrne, Andrew Klobucar, and others. Poems by George Bowering, Roo Borson, Robin Blaser, and others.

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Contributors

Daphne Marlatt

"masquerading as simple description": A Conversation with Sharon Thesen

Sharon Thesen

Poems

Andrea Actis

"alive and watching": Sharon Thesen and the Eighth Type of Ambiguity

Robin Blaser

Just an Apple

Roo Borson

A Chaise for Sharon

George Bowering

Nechako Spring Morning

Thea Bowering

Sharon Thesen: Poem in Memory, and growing up there

Colin Browne

"How much of Heaven has gone from Earth?": Sharon Thesen's "The Good Bacteria" suite

Clint Burnham

from the Benjamin Sonnets

Ted Byrne

PS I Adore You

Stephen Collis

Aristaeus Mourning the Loss of His Bees

Renee Rodin

For Sharon

Sharon Thesen

Photographs & Manuscripts

Pierre Coupey

Two Angels for Sharon

Brian Fawcett

Why Sharon Thesen Doesn't Win Poetry Prizes

Patrick Friesen

Two Poems for Sharon

Diana Hartog

The Yellow Chair

G. Maria Hindmarch

On Sharon

Nancy Holmes

Report from the Savage Fields: Sharon Thesen's "The Fire"

Andrew Klobucar

She Who Destroys Light: Sharon Thesen's The Good Bacteria and the Organic Imagination

Michele Leggott

gala apples

Kent Lewis

As Above, So Below: Parallax in Sharon Thesen's The Good Bacteria

Nicole Markotic

Sunday Morning, Making a Break, September

Ralph Maud

Charles Olson's First Poem

Barry McKinnon

Prince George Core (Part 2: unfinished notes)

Mary di Michele

Your Own Heart a Satire

Erín Moure

You Just Let Her Dance There

Jenny Penberthy

Canine Kin: Sharon Thesen's "Animals"

Lisa Robertson

The Dogs of Dirk Bogarde

Meredith Quartermain

Irony's Rhyme

Bob Sherrin

ReVerb & Echo

Gerry Shikatani

purse, porch, light

Pete Smith

"margarine in the aisles of hope": towards a thinking about Sharon Thesen's writings

George Stanley

After Akhmatova

Christine Stewart

The Urging Surface

John Webb

Petulant Sonnet for Sharon

Phyllis Webb

Selected Poem

Sharon Thesen

COVER: Early manuscript for "Biography," Thesen Archive, Contemporary Literature Collection, Simon Fraser University

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