# Flow: Poems Collected and New - Hardcover

by **Roy Miki** (Author), **Michael Barnholden** (Editor)

A stunning collection from Governor General's Award winner Roy Miki, Flow presents all of this critically acclaimed writer's 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Access File_, _Surrender_, _There_, and _Mannequin Rising_ - as well as a substantial chapter of new, previously unpublished works.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 collection's editor, Michael Barnholden, and an exhaustive bibliography, _Flow_ is the definitive edition of Miki's work. Also included are numerous full-colour photographs and photocollages, a practice Miki has become increasingly drawn to in recent years; in the book's previously published sections and in the much-anticipated section of brand-new work, Miki's poems and photographic works engage in a mutually enriching dialogue.

A Member of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Roy Miki is one of Canada's preeminent poets; he is also an influential critic, founder of the literary journal _Line_, and noted activist, instrumental in the movement for Japanese Canadian redress. All of Miki's 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.

This is the fourth volume in a new series of collected works published by Talonbooks. The first three are Phyllis Webb's _Peacock Blue: The Collected Poems_, Fred Wah's _Scree: The Collected Early Poems, 1962-1991_, and Daphne Marlatt's _Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1968-2008_.

### Author Biography

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 General's Award for Poetry for _Surrender_ (2001). He is also the editor of Muriel Kitagawa's _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.

**Number of Pages:** 640

**Dimensions:** 2 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** January 03, 2019

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