1997 Governor General’s Award nomination for poetry 1997 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Bowering’s free-falling imagination spins through the cosmos…. Every line is quotable. The Georgia Strait “Bowering writes of love with an understanding that it is the driving force interconnecting all humans, and that the empathy we need to understand each other can open a door to that love.” Jay Ruzesky (Event Magazine) “Marilyn Bowering’s new collection, Autobiography, reaches both the intellect and the emotions with earthy, sensuous poems that illuminate the spirit…To read Bowering is to fall into the mystical hands of her words; she never betrays our trust.” Susan Musgrave (The Vancouver Sun) “This [Autobiography] is one of the best books of poetry in our time...Read it again and again.”—Harold Rhenisch, The Milestones Review