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 attentive as much to the minutiae of daily life as to the complexities of artistic and literary creation and embedded in the politics of culture making and those of racialized identities these letters are a literary achievement in their own right