Steveston

This new edition brings together two Canadian poets who are also photographers, Daphne Marlatt and Robert Minden. Marlatt has written a new poem set in Steveston as it stands today, and Minden has added nine photographs from his original portfolio that were not in the first version. The core of the book remains as it was, even as the edition is refreshed.

Marlatt's poetry uses long lines that follow the movement of the Fraser River. Her words and Minden's images focus on a fishing village with a mainly Japanese-Canadian community, and both artists approach it from the outside. Through their work, they show how a place is built from many overlapping layers of people, and how traces of those people can remain or fade over time.