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Passionate critic, principled citizen, attentive reader and editor, and energizing instructor Roy Miki is a majority of these and extra, a poet whose writing articulates a relocating physique of labor. the 2 major components of his passionate study and writing social critique and poetics tell one another in those essays compiled to mark a milestone within the lifetime of a tremendous public intellectual.

Contributors from throughout North the United States take Miki’s literary and inventive achievements as a place to begin for analytical and inventive reflections on key creative, social and political routine of the second 1/2 the 20 th century. Essays on poetics by way of Daphne Marlatt, Fred Wah, George Bowering, and Michael Barnholden, between others, discover themes from voice, to like, to translation. Mona Oikawa, Dave Gaertner, Phinder Dulai, and Cindy Mochizuki write on social justice, putting Miki’s redress paintings with regards to the politics and artwork of different old reparations. Ashok Mathur, Aayaka Yoshimizu, Mark Nakada, David Fujino, and Hiromi Goto current various perspectives of biotext, a time period brought by way of George Bowering within the past due Eighties that refers to autobiographical textual content in among poetry and fiction. Jerry Zaslove, Susan Crean, Alessandra Capperdoni, and Smaro Kamboureli talk about the general public intellectual’s dating to associations from the college to urban corridor. the gathering ends with an interview with Miki on interrelations among his photographic and poetic practices.

Miki’s historical past displays that of the West Coast’s literary global. not just did he discovered the influential literary magazine West Coast Line, yet he has researched and written works on poets Roy Kiyooka, George Bowering, and bpNichol. Miki taught the various poets and teachers now operating and writing at the West Coast.

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