Showing posts with label Chinese second and third generation Canadian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese second and third generation Canadian. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Waiting For Saskatchewan

Fred Wah. Waiting For Saskatchewan. Turnstone, 1985.


A very interesting selection of poems and prose-poems exploring grief, memory, genealogy. Some I found incomprehensible, but others were touching, revealing. Especially the China travels and the Elite series. A reminder that "mixed" is not always "Metis" and that identity is most likely a universal quest only complicated by race[s].

The Picton File

 Stevie Cameron. The PICTON FILE. Knopf, 2007. Two hundred and fifty pages about the reporter's work covering the Robert Picton case in...