Daphne Marlatt (born July 11, 1942) is a Canadianpoet who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was born in Melbourne, Australia as Daphne Buckle. At a young age her family moved to Malaysia and at age nine they moved back to Vancouver, where she has since remained. She attended the University of British Columbia. There she developed her poetry style and her strong feminist views. He poetry, while considered extremely dense and difficult, is also much acclaimed.
Marlatt, who has been interested in noh ever since she took a course in Japanese literature in translation at the University of British Columbia in the 1960s, participated in the workshop and found Emmert a fine teacher.
The purpose of Marlatt's current trip to Japan is to give her an even clearer feel for the shodan, the musical passages that form a noh play, as she continues to build the text.
DaphneMarlatt will read from "Steveston" and other works and talk about her writing in Room EF in the 12F Artspace of the Aichi Arts Center in Nagoya (Higashiyama Line, Sakae Station, Exit 4), April 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Marlatt indirectly comments on these differences in language games when Ana writes in her journal that women "among themselves" do not "speak as they do in a mixed situation." In situations with men, women's discourse is "only an element of response" (106) to men's discourse, not an element of women's agency and initiative.
Marlatt's story of women struggling with language in a patriarchal society raises many questions, partly because the novel adopts a non-linear time sequence, and partly because she avoids offering solutions to the dilemma of women's identities.
Marlatt chronicles Annie's awareness of her body, her consciousness entrenched in the patriarchy, conditioned on the approval of males — on how males look at her.
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