 Author Name: Kiyooka, Roy
Title: PACIFIC RIM LETTERS
Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: New
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Edmonton, AB Newest Press 2005
ISBN Number: 1896300707 / 9781896300702
Seller ID: 8005
Large softcover is new and unread, no markings."Pacific Rim Letters, alongside with its earlier companion volume, Transcanada Letters, postmarks Roy Kiyooka's 20-year letter writing project as one of the most unique manifestos of epistolatory poetics in the past 50 years. This extraordinarily innovative and expansive painter, photographer, writer and musician used the letter as a form to explore and develop a domestic aesthetic that addresses the daily life of the artist at work, the quotidian correspondences of business, community and the imagination. The narrative threads through these missives deliver a gripping biotext of a racialized and hyphenated Canadian artist 'leaping cultural fences' and rapping out to the 'myriad extension' of the mundane self...."--Fred Wah, author of Diamond Grill & Faking It & Governor General's Award recipient.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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