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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155223103321

Autore

Wah Fred <1939->

Titolo

The false laws of narrative : the poetry of Fred Wah / / selected, with an introduction, by Louis Cabri and an afterword by Fred Wah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009

ISBN

1-55458-236-9

1-282-53446-7

9786612534461

1-55458-162-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (102 p.)

Collana

Laurier poetry series

Altri autori (Persone)

CabriLouis

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Canadian literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Foreword; Biographical Note; Introduction; Mountain that has come over me; Even the eyes; Akokli (goat) creek; Gold Hill; Among; Poem for Turning; For the Western Gate; Havoc Nation; Hamill's Last Stand; Chain; severance spring water; September spawn; nv s ble; We are different; Sounds of o and ree; Breathe dust like you breathe wind; Sigh. A tenuous slight stream; A hight; Aug 5; Music at the Heart of Thinking 1; Music at the Heart of Thinking 6; Music at the Heart of Thinking 28; Music at the Heart of Thinking 50; Music at the Heart of Thinking 55

Music at the Heart of Thinking 77Music at the Heart of Thinking 78; Music at the Heart of Thinking 89; Music at the Heart of Thinking 93; Music at the Heart of Thinking 98; ArtKnot 1; ArtKnot 2; ArtKnot 4; Hermes Poems; The Poem Called Syntax; Dead in My Tracks:Wildcat Creek Utaniki; Hey,Man; (sentenced); Ripraps (Louis Cabri) and Afterwords (Fred Wah); Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

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 finest and most complex lyric poets and has been lauded for the musicality of his verse. Louis Cabri's introduction offers a paradi