{"product_id":"9780889229488","title":"Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962-1991","description":"\u003cbr\u003eFred Wah’s career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles and preoccupations. \u003ci\u003eScree\u003c\/i\u003e collects Wah’s concrete and sound poetry of the 1960s, his landscape-centric work of the 1970s, and his ethnicity-oriented poems of the 1980s. Fred was a founding member of the avant-garde TISH group, which helped turn Canadian poetry, in the West in particular, to a focus on language. He has said that his “writing has been sustained, primarily, by two interests: racial hybridity and the local.”\u003cp\u003eMost of Wah’s early work is out of print. This collection allows readers to (re)discover this groundbreaking work. The volume contains:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLardeau\u003c\/i\u003e (1965)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMountain\u003c\/i\u003e (1967)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmong\u003c\/i\u003e (1972)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTree\u003c\/i\u003e (1972)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEarth\u003c\/i\u003e (1974)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePictograms from the Interior of B.C.\u003c\/i\u003e (1975)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLoki Is Buried at Smoky Creek\u003c\/i\u003e (1980)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOwner’s Manual\u003c\/i\u003e (1981)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBreathin’ My Name with a Sigh\u003c\/i\u003e (1981)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrasp the Sparrow’s Tail\u003c\/i\u003e (1982)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaiting for Saskatchewan\u003c\/i\u003e (1985)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRooftops\u003c\/i\u003e (1988)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo Far\u003c\/i\u003e (1991)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection has been organized according to a chronology of composition (rather than a chronology of original publication): this reveals new connections and thematic trajectories in the body of work as a whole, and makes the book an eminently “teachable” volume. The book includes full-colour facsimiles of two early books\u003ci\u003e, Earth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTree\u003c\/i\u003e, reproduced to show the “hands-on” object-based aspect of chapbook publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Talonbooks, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009152991472,"sku":"9780889229488","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889229488_p0.jpg?v=1763854327","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889229488","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}