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Meredith Quartermain: I, Bartleby

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In these quirkily imaginative short stories about writing and writers, the scrivener Quartermain (our “Bartleby”) goes her stubborn way haunted by Pauline Johnson, Malcolm Lowry, Robin Blaser, Daphne Marlatt, and a host of other literary forebears. Who is writing whom, these stories ask in their musing reflections — the writer or the written? The thinker or the alphabet? The calligrapher or the pictograms hidden in her Chinese written characters? Intimate jealousies between writers, wagers of courage and ambition, and histories of the colours violet and yellow are some of the subjects in the first section, “Caravan.” Struggles of mothers, fathers, and sisters (and the figures drawn in the Chinese written characters that represent them) unfold as tales of love, death, and revenge in the group of stories in the second section, “Orientalisme.” In “Scriptorium,” the third section, we find out how Bartleby’s father, a Caucasian cook specializing in Chinese cuisine, got Bartleby into writing in the first place. In the fourth series of stories, “How to Write,” we learn how Bartleby loses her I while meeting Allen Ginsberg, Alice Toklas, and a real Chinese cook who works in a fictional house of Ethel Wilson, and how Malcolm Lowry’s life came to an end. The fifth and last section, “Moccasin Box,” investigates how a Sebaldesque Bartleby is silenced by Pauline Johnson. Taking its cue from genre-bending writers like Robert Walser and Enrique Vila-Matas, cunningly challenges boundaries between fiction and reality.

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Pictograms for Daphne Marlatt: the greyed-out character is Chinese for poetry. The others are root characters from L. Wieger, Chinese Characters: Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification and Signification.

The Real Fictional House of His Imagined Film Director: a taropatch is a type of ukulele with six or eight strings in four courses. Margerie Bonner described the one played by her husband as “a long-range uke with more strings and frets” (Perle Epstein, “Swinging the Maelstrom,” Canadian Literature). Italicized material comes from published material by Malcolm Lowry and unpublished writings by Margerie Bonner Lowry. Unpublished writings by Margerie Lowry printed here by permission of SSL/Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. Copyright by Margerie Bonner Lowry.

Acknowledgements

Enormous thanks to Marion Farrant for her help in the final shaping of this book; her thoughtful suggestions were invaluable. Everyone at Talonbooks has been great to work with; many thanks to Kevin, Vicki, Greg, Ann-Marie, Les, Chloë, and Spencer. I want to also thank Daphne Marlatt and Rachel Blau DuPlessis for their feedback and editorial suggestions on an early version of “Moccasin Box.” And thanks too to Colin Browne for his feedback on “The Real Fictional House of His Imagined Film Director.”

I am very grateful too for the support I received from literary magazines who published earlier versions of pieces in this book, especially Canada & Beyond for publishing “Manifesto” (titled here “If I noiselessly”); Capilano University Editions for publishing “Silence” in One More Once: for Pierre Coupey’s 70th; Dusie for publishing “Cloth Music”; Eleven Eleven for publishing “One cannot”; Endless Buffet Press for publishing “Waiters” in the Banff Writers’ Studio 2011 anthology; Event magazine for publishing “How to Write”; filling Station for publishing “I and Christine” (titled here “If I, No Reply, Write of Christine Stewart,”); Golden Handcuffs Review for publishing “Mén,” “Bàba,” “Māma,” “Mèimei,” “Māo,” “Pictograms for Daphne Marlatt,” and [forthcoming 2015] “Moccasin Box”; Prism International for publishing “If I, Bartleby,” “A Natural History of the Throught,” “Out of the dark,” and “How to converse”; and The Capilano Review for publishing “Bù” and “Hăi.”

The photographs in “Moccasin Box” were sourced online and are in the public domain.

I would also like to thank UBC Rare Books and Special Collections and especially Ken Hildebrand for his invaluable help in researching the Lowry Archive.

Endless thanks to Peter, always my first and most loving reader.

About the Author

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MEREDITH QUARTERMAIN is known across Canada for her depictions of places and their historical hauntings. Vancouver Walking (2005) won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; Nightmarker (2008) was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award; and Recipes from the Red Planet (2010), her book of flash fiction, was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In Rupert’s Land (2013) her first novel, a town girl helps a residential-school runaway in Alberta in the 1930s.

Quartermain was the 2012 writer-in-residence at the Vancouver Public Library, where she led workshops on songwriting and writing about neighbourhoods, and enjoyed consulting with many other writers from throughout the Lower Mainland. She now continues these activities as poetry mentor in the Writer’s Studio Program at Simon Fraser University.

Quartermain has taught English at the University of British Columbia and Capilano College and has led workshops at the Naropa University Summer Writing Program, the Kootenay School of Writing, and the Toronto New School of Writing. In 2002, she and her husband, Peter Quartermain, founded Nomados Literary Publishers, through which they’ve published more than forty books of poetry, fiction, memoir, and drama.

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