"Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems offers Marlatt's perceptual and Vancouver-centric work of the 1970s, her feminist writing of the 1980s, and her later collaborative work. Intertidal collects a broad selection of this poet's groundbreaking work, including poetry from sixteen published collections and a number of previously unpublished or uncollected poems. The collection includes an introduction by Susan Holbrook as well as a bibliography of the work of this West Coast, deconstructionist, lesbian,and feminist writer.