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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Wah, Fred
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Fred Wah was born in Swift Current,
Saskatchewan in 1939 but grew up in the West Kootenay region
of British Columbia. His father was a Canadian-born Chinese-Scots-Irishman
raised in China and his mother a Swedish-born Canadian from
Swift Current. Wah received a B.A. from the University of
British Columbia in English literature and music before pursuing
graduate studies in literature and linguistics in the U.S.
where he eventually earned an M.A. from SUNY at Buffalo. He
taught at a number of post-secondary institutions in western Canada and recently retired from in the English Dept. at the
University of Calgary. Wah is probably best known as a poet, but he has made significant contributions as an editor and in recent years has become active in collaborative performance art. Wah now lives in Vancouver. |
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Poetry
All Americans
Calgary: Housepress, 2002. |
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Poetry
Alley Alley Home Free
Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Press, 1992.
9th floor PS8545 .A35 A8 1992
Publisher's Synopsis
Alley Alley Home Free is the second segment of Music at the Heart of Thinking ..., Fred Wah's continuing response to contemporary texts. With the inclusion of "Artknots," phrasings of elusive silences caught in the galleries of visual art, these poems continue to expand into an improvisational jazzlike discourse of unpredictable syntaxes and grammars of surprise. The intention is to outmanoeuvre the text, get home without being tagged, disrupt the ambitions of meaning as they fall blurred into a blind alley. Running alongside the simple sentence, the music at the heart of thinking reaches out to touch estranged word-worlds, language that can't stop making sense - more sense, sometimes than we can hide. |
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Poetry
Among
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1972. |
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Poetry
Breathin' My Name With a Sigh
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1981.
9th floor PS8545 .A35 B7 1981 |
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Poetry
Earth
Canton, N.Y.: Institute of Further Studies, 1974. |
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Poetry
The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah
Selected with an introduction by Louis Cabri and an afterword by Fred Wah.
Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.
9th floor PS8545 .A35 A6 2009
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Poetry
Is a Door
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2009.
9th floor PS8545 .A35 I82 2009
Publisher's Synopsis
Including poetry projects, a chapbook and incidental poems previously published in magazines and by small presses, is a door makes use of the poem's ability for "suddenness" to subvert closure: the sudden question, the sudden turn, the sudden opening--writing that is generated from linguistic mindfulness, improvisation, compositional problem-solving, collaborative events, travel, investigation and documentary -- in short, poetry as practice. |
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Poetry
Lardeau: Selected First Poems
Toronto: Island Press, [1965].
Limited ed. of 350 copies. |
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Poetry
Mountain
Buffalo, N.Y.: Audit, 1967. |
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Poetry
Music at the Heart of Thinking
Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Press, 1987. |
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Poetry
Pictograms From the Interior of B.C.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1975.
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Poetry
Rooftops
Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Press, 1988.
Limited ed. of 300 copies. |
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Poetry
Selected Poems: Loki is Buried at Smoky Creek
Edited and with an introduction by George Bowering.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1980.
9th floor PS8545 .A35 A6 1980
Publisher's Synopsis
This volume includes work selected from each of Fred Wah's earlier books of poetry: Lardeau,
Mountain, Among, Tree and
Pictograms from the Interior of B.C.; in addition to unpublished work and work from the
manuscript edition of Breathin' My Name With a Sigh. |
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Poetry
Sentenced to Light
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2008.
FORTHCOMING
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
An astonishing series of unique collaborative image-text projects, Sentenced to Light privileges its poetic and formal textual space outside most of the images that are its original twins and offers the reader a glimpse of the dialectic of larger conversations, the unpredictable, improvisatory bavardage that whispers between these words and pictures in a space we call culture. |
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Poetry
So Far
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1991.
Awards and Honours
1992 Stephanson Award for Poetry (Winner) |
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Poetry
Tree
Vancouver: Vancouver Community Press, 1972.
Limited ed. of 400 copies. |
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Anthology (Poetry)
New Wave Canada: The New Explosion in Canadian Poetry
Souster, Raymond, ed.
Toronto: Contact Press, 1966.
9th floor PS8292 .S68 1966 |
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Prose/Biofiction
Diamond Grill
Edmonton: NeWest, 1996.
9th floor PS8545 .A35 D53 1996
Publisher's Synopsis
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 from whites for being Chinese and from Chinese
for being white simmers behing the shiny clean surface of
the action in the cafe.
Awards and Honours
1996 Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction (Winner) |
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Non-Fiction
Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity, Critical Writing 1984-1999
9th floor PN1042
.W287 2000
Awards and Honors
2000 Gabrielle Roy Prize for writing on Canadian literature
(Winner) |
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Criticism and Interpretation
Banting, Pamela. Body Inc.: A Theory of Translation Poetics. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1995.
9th floor PS8155 .B25 1995
Beauregard, Guy Pierre. "Asian Canadian Literature: Diasporic Interventions in the Work of SKY Lee, Joy Kogawa, Hiromi Goto, and Fred Wah." Ph.D. diss., University of Alberta, 2000.
Available from Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Diehl-Jones, Charlene. "Fred Wah and His Works." In Canadian Writers and Their Works. Poetry Series. Vol. 12, ed. Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley, 343-434. Toronto: ECW Press, 1996.
9th floor PS8141 .C375 v.12
Koh, Karlyn Y-Mae. "Reflections on the Coming of History: Revisiting the Makings of a "Chinese Canadian" Identity and Community." Ph.D. diss., Simon Fraser University, 1999.
Lim, Huai-Yang. "Representations of Class Identity in Chinese Canadian Literature." Ph.D. diss., University of Alberta, 2005.
Available from Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Uppal, Priscila. "Fred Wah: "This Dendrite Map: Father/Mother Haibun"." In We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. p. 238-248.
9th floor PS8145 .E4 U66 2009
Wah, Fred, "Fred Wah on Hybridity and Asianicity in Canada." Interview by Susan Rudy." In Butling, Pauline, and Susan Reddy. Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch ... [et al.] Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2005.
9th floor PS8155.1 .B88 2005 |
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