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edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Nov 2006
ISBN:9781554200269
publisher: New Star Books

There

by Roy Miki

tagged: canadian
Description

In the followup to the 2002 Governor-General's Award winner Surrender, Roy Miki extends his exploration of the margins joining social and individual language, and of layers of history overlaying places. Canada, Asia, Europe provide the local conditions where the authorial "i" engages with globalization, with the collision between otherness and spatialization. The serial poems comprising There contain a multiplicity of voices drawn from those the poet hears in conversation, advertising, historiography and scientific proceedings, and incorporate photos and photomontages.

About the Author
Roy Miki grew up in Winnipeg and moved to Vancouver in 1967. He has published widely on Asian Canadian writing, Canadian literature, cultural activism, and contemporary poetry, and has edited works by George Bowering, bpNichol, and Roy K. Kiyooka. He is the author of Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (2004) and In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing (2011), as well as six books of poems. His third book of poems, Surrender (2001), received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Cloudy and Clear, his most recent book of poems, is part of Flow. With his wife, Slavia Miki, he has also co-written a children’s book, Dolphin SOS (2014), awarded the 2014 Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize. Roy taught in the English department at Simon Fraser University for over thirty years. He received the Order of Canada in 2006 and the Order of British Columbia in 2009.
Contributor Notes

Roy Miki is the author of the non-fiction book Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (2005), as well as three previous volumes of poetry, Saving Face: Selected Poems 1976-1988 (1991), Random Access File (1995), and Surrender (2002). He also has edited work by bpNichol, George Bowering, and Roy Kiyooka. Miki lives in Vancouver.

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