{"product_id":"is-a-door-paperback","title":"Is a Door - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFred Wah\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding poetry projects, a chapbook and incidental poems previously published in magazines and by small presses, \u003ci\u003eis a door\u003c\/i\u003e makes use of the poem's ability for \"suddenness\" to subvert closure: the sudden question, the sudden turn, the sudden opening--writing that is generated from linguistic mindfulness, improvisation, compositional problem-solving, collaborative events, travel, investigation and documentary--in short, poetry as practice.\u003cbr\u003ePart one, \"Isadora Blue,\" is grounded in the author's encounter with the smashed and broken doors along the hurricane-devastated waterfront of Telchac Puerto, a small village on the north coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. It resonates throughout the other three sections of the book, with its attention to hybridity and \"between-ness\"--a poetic investigation of racialized otherness--and the composition of \"citizen\" and \"foreigner\" through history and language. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart two of this series of poems, \"Ethnogy Journal,\" written during a trip to Thailand and Laos in 1999, hinges around aspects of \"tourist\" and \"native.\" Here the poems play in the interstices of spectacle, food and social sightseeing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMuch of this poetry is framed by Wah's acute sense of the marginalized non-urban local \"place\" and coloured by his attempt to articulate senses of otherness and resistance, or writing the \"public self,\" particularly in the book's third section, \"Discount Me In\"--a series of sixteen poems from his discursive poetic essay \"Count Me In.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe fourth section, \"Hinges,\" is tinted with portraits of the social subject mired in a diasporic mix, a metanarrative trope in Fred Wah's work that began with \u003ci\u003eBreathin' My Name With a Sigh\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharacteristically playful and compositionally musical, this is poetry that watches both sides of the doorway: unsettled, unpredictable, closed and open. Sometimes the door swings and can be kicked. Sometimes it's simply missing. Sometimes it's a sliding door.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFred Wah \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFred Wah was one of the founding editors of the poetry newsletter \u003ci\u003eTISH\u003c\/i\u003e. Of his seventeen books of poetry, is a door received the BC Book Prize, \u003ci\u003eWaiting For Saskatchewan \u003c\/i\u003ereceived the Governor-General's Award and So Far was awarded the Stephanson Award for Poetry. \u003ci\u003eDiamond Grill, \u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eFaking It: Poetics and Hybridity\u003c\/i\u003e, received the Gabrielle Roy Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 24, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42702189985855,"sku":"9780889226203","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d5ea41f1ac9ff3e63d7a7fd32640abbe.webp?v=1765023494","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/is-a-door-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}