Waiting For Saskatchewan |
Turnstone Press
1985
96 pages
Paperback ISBN: 978-0888011008
Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry 1985
Wah interprets memory—a journey to China and Japan, his father’s experience as a Chinese immigrant in small Canadian towns, images from childhood—to locate the influence of genealogy. The procession of narrative reveals Wah’s own attempts to find “the relief of exotic identity.”
Tags: China, Fred Wah, Frederick James Wah, Japan, Turnstone Press