Marigolds by Nanaimo's Daniel Rajala is a collection of love poems and meditations covering 1998-2009. Raised in a working class family in Campbell River, he attended the Vancouver School of Art in 1973. Impressed by the impact of a streaker at a Beach Boys concert, he tried streaking one night, running naked down Barclay Street in Vancouver's West End. He has continued streaking as a theatrical event. In 2009 he cited Love Palace as his 27th self-published book, but Marigolds is his first perfect-bound collection. The title poem of Marigolds concludes: "Even though my life can feel / like a war ravaged land at times, / there is some reassuring calmness to / be found with something beautiful, / that I brought into the world to look / at, on a bright sunny Fall afternoon."; 978-0-9865051-0-2

[BCBW 2019]