Passionate critic; principled citizen; attentive reader and editor; and energizing teacher – Roy Miki is all these and more; a poet whose shy;writing articulates a moving body of work. The two main areas of his passionate research and writing – social critique and poetics – inform each other in these essays compiled to mark a milestone in the life of an important public intellectual.Contributors from across North America take Mikirsquo;s literary and artistic achievements as a starting point for analytical and creative reflections on key artistic; social and political movements of the shy;second half of the 20th century. Essays on poetics by Daphne Marlatt; Fred Wah; George Bowering; and Michael Barnholden; among others; explore topics from voice; to love; to translation. Mona Oikawa; Dave Gaertner; Phinder Dulai; and Cindy Mochizuki write on social justice; placing Mikirsquo;s redress work in relation to the politics and art of other historical reparations. Ashok Mathur; Aayaka Yoshimizu; Mark Nakada; David Fujino; and Hiromi Goto present shy;various views of biotext; a term introduced by George Bowering in the late 1980s that refers to autobiographical text in between poetry and fiction. Jerry Zaslove; Susan Crean; Alessandra Capperdoni; and Smaro Kamboureli discuss the public intellectualrsquo;s relationship to institutions from the university to city hall. The collection ends with an interview with Miki on interrelations between his photographic and poetic shy;practices.Mikirsquo;s history reflects that of the West Coastrsquo;s literary world. Not only did he found the influential literary journal West Coast Line; but he has researched and written works on poets Roy Kiyooka; George Bowering; and bpNichol. Miki taught many of the poets and academics now working and writing on the West Coast.
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