news | Tuesday March 2, 2010

Fred Wah could be Kazuo Ishiguro’s guide to understanding Poetry

Including poetry projects, a chapbook and incidental poems previously published in magazines and by small presses, is a door makes use of the poem’s ability for “suddenness” to subvert closure: the sudden question, the sudden turn, the sudden opening—writing that is generated from linguistic mindfulness, improvisation, compositional problem-solving, collaborative events, travel, investigation and documentary—in short, poetry as practice.

Read the Globe and Mail review of the acclaimed is a door by Governor General’s Award-winner Fred Wah.