Breathin' My Name with a Sigh Front Cover


ISBN: 9780889221888
Pages: 88 pp
Pub. Date: January 1 1981
Dimensions: 9" x 6" x 0.25"
Rights: Available: WORLD
Categories
Poetry / POE011000

  • POETRY / Canadian

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Breathin' My Name with a Sigh
By Fred Wah

With the publication of this present edition, Talonbooks is pleased to make available to the reader the first complete version of Fred Wah’s Breathin’ My Name with a Sigh, the seventh book of poetry from one of the most important poets in North America today.

Fred Wah was one of the founding editors of the poetry newsletter TISH. Of his 17 books of poetry, is a door received the BC Book Prize, Waiting For Saskatchewan received the Governor-General’s Award and So Far was awarded the Stephanson Award for Poetry. Diamond Grill, a biofiction 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, Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity, received the Gabrielle Roy Prize. The first volume of his collected poems, Scree, was published in 2015.