Author Description

Product Description Poetry. While incorporating photos and photomontages, Roy Miki's THERE explores the mergins connecting social and individual language. Canada, Asia, and Europe provide the local conditions where the authorial "i" engages both with globalization and with the collision between otherness and spatialization. THERE explores the margins connecting social and individual language, echoing a multiplicity of voices drawn from conversation, advertising, historiography and scientific proceedings. Miki's 2002 book Surrender won the Governor-General's Award. This is his fourth book of poetry. About the Author Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents, he attended the University of Manitoba, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, where he is currently a professor. He lives in Vancouver. He is very active is the Japanese-Canadian community and has fought hard for redress from the federal government for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War. In 2006, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.