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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Uppal, Priscila
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Poet and novelist Priscila Uppal was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1974 to a Brazilian mother and a father of South Asian origin. She completed a double honours B.A. in English and Creative Writing from York University in 1997, an M.A. in English from the University of Toronto in 1998, and a Ph.D. in English literature from York University in 2003. Uppal is an assistant professor of Humanities and Co-ordinator of the Creative Writing Program at York University in Toronto.
Uppal served as poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and in 2011 became the first Rogers Cup Tennis Tournament poet-in-residence. |
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Poetry
Confessions of a Fertility Expert
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1999.
9th floor PS8591 .P62 C65 1999 |
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Poetry
How to Draw Blood from a Stone
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1998
9th floor PS8591 .P62 H6 1998 |
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Poetry
Live Coverage
Toronto: Exile Editions, 2003.
9th floor PS8591 .P62 L49 2003
Publisher's Synopsis
In Live Coverage Priscila Uppal deftly negotiates between the contemporary and the mythic, in a bourgeoning 21st century that bristles with biblical and classical justice. Taking the form of a news report, complete with news crawl and mid-broadcast interruptions, this risky and unique collection of poems presents pscyhologically stark and wrenching portraits of individual lives here and now, while managing to be both a modern document and prophetic utterance. |
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Poetry
Ontological Necessities
Toronto: Exile Editions, 2006.
9th floor PS8591 .P62 O68 2006
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
... From poems that explore questions of identity (who is anyone, anyway?) to those that attempt to examine human relationships with the onslaught of horrors depicted daily in the news, this collection uses surrealist and absurdist language in subversive and startling ways to grapple with an increasingly absurd world. |
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Poetry
Pretending to Die
Toronto: Exile Editions, 2001.
9th floor PS8591 .P62 P73 2001
Publisher's Synopsis
Pretending to Die continues [Uppal's] exploration of myth and mourning, how the past survives in the present, and how we stay afloat against the knowledge of mortality. |
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Poetry
Successful Tragedies: Poems 1998-2010
Highgreen, Tarset, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2010.
9th floor PS8591 .P62 S83 2010
Publisher's Synopsis
... includes work from six books published in Canada, including Ontological Necessities, ..., and her latest collection, Traumatology. Readers experiencing Priscilla Uppal for the first time will enter a turbulent but vital landscape, discovering a poet dedicated to uncovering the motivations behind our cruelties and our compassions and determined to explore the absurdity of the world.
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Poetry
Traumatology
Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2010.
9th floor PS8591 .P62 T73 2010
Publisher's Synopsis
In ... [Traumatology], the standards by which we define our mental, physical, and spiritual health are dissected in the poet's holistic laboratory. Men with wands patrol the neighbourhood charting cellular death, past selves smuggle themselves aboard airplanes for exotic trips, while the unhappy spin the psychological wheel of blame. Playful, satirical, surreal, yet unflinchingly humane in its examination of states of being, this new collection will change the way you think about your body, you mind, and your spirit. And will lead you off into uncharted regions. |
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Poetry
Winter Sport: Poems
Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2010.
9th floor PS8591 .P62 W56 2010
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
Have you ever wondered what a luge poem or snowboarding poem or hockey poem would look like? In this collection by celebrated poet Priscila Uppal, who was the poet-in-residence for Canadian Athletes Now during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, physical and verbal acrobatics meet in a dazzling competition of risky play, inventive movements, and daring heights. Try a speed skating suit on for size, slide down the skeleton track, seek out a date with a curler, make love to a snowboarder, and play hockey with the nation’s best – experience winter sport fun like never before. |
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Fiction (Short stories)(Chapbook)
Cover Before Striking
Images by Tracy Carbert.
Toronto: Lyricalmyrical Press, 2004.
Limited edition. |
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Fiction
The Divine Economy of Salvation
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2002.
Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2003.
Publisher's Synopsis |
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Fiction
To Whom it May Concern
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2009.
9th floor PS8591 .P62 T62 2008
Publisher's Synopsis
In this modern retelling of King Lear set in multicultural Ottawa, Priscilla Uppal explores the vulnerability and complexity of family and inheritance. She exposes the tragic and comedic and dimensions of our failures to communicate and the unexpected consequences of our betrayals. |
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Anthology
Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets
Edited by Rishma Dunlop & Priscilla Uppal.
Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2004.
9th floor PS8283 .A8 R43 2004 |
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Anthology (Short stories)
Her Mother's Ashes 3: Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States
9th floorPS8329.1 .H45 2009
Uppal, Prscila. "The Man Who Loved Cats." In Her Mother's Ashes 3, edited by Nurjehan Aziz. Toronto: Tsar, 2009, [61]-66. |
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Anthology
Tok. Book 2
9th floor PS8237 .T6 T54 2007
Uppal, Prscila. "My Father's South-Asian Canadian Dictionary." In Tok. Book 2, edited by Helen Walsh. Toronto: Zephyr Press, 2007, 27-29. [poem]
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"Recipes for Dirty Laundry." p. 31-51. [short story] |
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