This story of family and identity migration and integration culture and self discovery is told through family history memory and the occasional recipe Diamond Grill is a rich banquet where Salisbury Steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice bird s nest soup sets the stage for Christmas plum pudding where racism simmers behind the shiny clean surface of the action in the cafe An exciting new edition of Fred Wah s best selling bio fiction on t...
is a door" includes poems generated from linguistic mindfulness, improvisation, compositional problem-solving, collaborative events, travel, investigation documentary.
The False Laws of Narrative" is a selection of Fred Wah's poems covering the poets entire poetic trajectory to date. A founding editor of "Tish" magazine, Wah was influenced by leading progressive and innovative poets of the 1960s and was at the forefront of the exploration of racial hybridity, multiculturalism, and transnational family roots in poetry. The selection emphasizes his innovative poetic range. Wah is renowned as one of Canada's fi...
Wah interprets memorya journey to China and Japan, his fathers experience as a Chinese immigrant in small Canadian towns, images from childhoodto locate the influence of genealogy. The procession of narrative reveals Wahs own attempts to find the relief of exotic identity.Fred Wah searches for his father within various literary forms and embraces. This is a beautiful book and we are in the muscle and limbs of rough cut clear languagelive brigh...
A critical scrapbook collected from fifteen years of writing Contains essays reviews interviews journals notes and poetic improvisations on contemporary poetry and identity
