Flow: Poems Collected and New

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A stunning collection from Governor Generals Award winner Roy Miki, Flow presents all of this critically acclaimed writers poetry from his collections Saving Face, Random Access File, Surrender, There, and Mannequin Rising as well as a substantial chapter of new, previously unpublished works. Including a foreword by poet and critic Louis Cabri, extensive interviews with Miki by the collections editor, Michael Barnholden, and an exhaustive bibliography, Flow is the definitive edition of Mikis work. Also included are numerous full-colour photographs and photocollages, a practice Miki has become increasingly drawn to in recent years; in the books previously published sections and in the much-anticipated section of brand-new work, Mikis poems and photographic works engage in a mutually enriching dialogue.

, and noted activist, instrumental in the movement for Japanese Canadian redress. All of Mikis roles and concerns coalesce and interpollinate in his perceptive poems, which remain precisely attuned to the complex relationships between race, language, and power as they map and interrogate the layers of history enfolded within place and identity.

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I quite like that the collection ends with an interview with Miki, a focus on his own words on his work that I appreciate, providing multiple insights and entrances into his writing and thinking.
robmclennan

"Miki's reputation is that of an innovator whose work explores themes of race, class, politics and history."
CBC Books

Author Bio

Roy Miki is an award-winning writer, poet, and critic who taught for many years at Simon Fraser University. He has written extensively on the work of bpNichol and edited Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka, which won the 1997 Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. His major bibliographic study, A Record of Writing: An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering, won the Gabrielle Roy Prize from the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures as the best book on Canadian Literature of 1991. He was awarded the Governor Generals Award for Poetry for Surrender (2001). He is also the editor of Muriel Kitagawas This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians (1985); Tracing the Paths: Reading Writing The Martyrology (1988); and Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol; and co-editor with Cassandra Kobayashi of Justice In Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement. Miki lives in Vancouver.