{"product_id":"scree-the-collected-earlier-poems-1962-1991-paperback","title":"Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962-1991 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFred Wah\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeff Derksen\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFred Wah's career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles and preoccupations. \u003cem\u003eScree\u003c\/em\u003e collects Wah's concrete and sound poetry of the 1960s, his landscape-centric work of the 1970s, and his ethnicity-oriented poems of the 1980s. Fred was a founding member of the avant-garde TISH group, which helped turn Canadian poetry, in the West in particular, to a focus on language. He has said that his \"writing has been sustained, primarily, by two interests: racial hybridity and the local.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMost of Wah's early work is out of print. This collection allows readers to (re)discover this groundbreaking work. The volume contains: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLardeau \u003c\/em\u003e(1965)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMountain\u003c\/em\u003e (1967)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmong\u003c\/em\u003e (1972)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTree\u003c\/em\u003e (1972)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEarth\u003c\/em\u003e (1974)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePictograms from the Interior of B.C.\u003c\/em\u003e (1975)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLoki Is Buried at Smoky Creek\u003c\/em\u003e (1980)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOwner's Manual\u003c\/em\u003e (1981)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBreathin' My Name with a Sigh \u003c\/em\u003e(1981)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrasp the Sparrow's Tail\u003c\/em\u003e (1982)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWaiting for Saskatchewan \u003c\/em\u003e(1985)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRooftops\u003c\/em\u003e (1988)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo Far \u003c\/em\u003e(1991) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe collection has been organized according to a chronology of composition (rather than a chronology of original publication): this reveals new connections and thematic trajectories in the body of work as a whole, and makes the book an eminently \"teachable\" volume. The book includes full-colour facsimiles of two early books, \u003cem\u003eEarth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTree\u003c\/em\u003e, reproduced to show the \"hands-on\" object-based aspect of chapbook publishing.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFred Wah\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, in 1939 and grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. After graduate work with Robert Creeley and Charles Olson, he returned to the Kootenays in the late 1960s, founding the writing program at David Thompson University Centre (DTUC). A pioneer of online publishing, Wah has mentored a generation of some of the most exciting new voices in poetry today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOf his seventeen books of poetry, is a door received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, \u003cem\u003eWaiting for Saskatchewan\u003c\/em\u003e received the Governor General's Award, and So Far was awarded the Stephanson Award for Poetry. \u003cem\u003eDiamond Grill\u003c\/em\u003e, a bio-fiction about hybridity and growing up in a small-town Chinese-Canadian café, won the Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction, and his collection of critical writing, \u003cem\u003eFaking It: Poetics and Hybridity\u003c\/em\u003e, received the Gabrielle Roy Prize. Wah was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2012. He served as Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2013. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeff Derksen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a founding member of Vancouver's writer-run centre, the Kootenay School of Writing. His poetry and critical writing on art, urbanism, and text have been published in Europe and North America.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 648\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 27, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53735232602476,"sku":"9780889229488","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/3019\/6844\/files\/4a8a7c42b5a959b5a46e401939593415.webp?v=1778376801","url":"https:\/\/pattansenterprise.com\/products\/scree-the-collected-earlier-poems-1962-1991-paperback","provider":"Pattansenterprise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}