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Delicate poems and images show a sturdy pear tree and a fading love in this lost classic.Written after the end of a relationship, there's a persistent and gentle sadness among The Pear Tree Pomes, coloured by the intimacy of his awareness of a pear tree and its constancy. Coupled with illustrations by influential abstract painter David Bolduc, these delicate poems are part nature study, part ekphrasis, and part eulogy to recently ended romance...

Transcanada Letters by Roy Kiyooka was a landmark when it first appeared in 1975. Almost thirty years later, it remains one of the most remarkable literary texts in Canada. At once a document and a creative work, personal meditation and cultural manifesto, it engages the reader with Kiyooka's intimate voice speaking through his letters to family, as well as friends, many of them writers and visual artists.

Pacific Rim Letters "is a never before seen collection of letters Roy Kiyooka wrote between 1975 and 1985 It presents a fascinating and highly valuable picture of the artistic and literary communities Kiyooka was actively involved with as well as Kiyooka as a man with an extraordinary intellect and passion for life and the arts Kiyooka takes the epistolary form into new and radical directions At once tenderly estranged and confessional attenti...

In 1993 Mary Kiyooka sat with her son Roy Kiyooka one of Canada s most important avant garde painters and a tape recorder and in her native Japanese shared her memories with him her childhood in Japan her arrival as a married woman in Canada and her family s experience in Alberta during the Japanese internment period

The most important poetic works of visual artist, sculptor, film-maker, photographer, writer and poet Roy Kiyooka.