{"product_id":"scree-the-collected-earlier-poems-1962-1991-9780889229471","title":"Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962-1991","description":"\u003cp\u003eFred Wah's career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles and preoccupations. \u003cem\u003eScree\u003c\/em\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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMost of Wah's early work is out of print. This collection allows readers to (re)discover this groundbreaking work. The volume contains: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLardeau \u003c\/em\u003e(1965)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMountain\u003c\/em\u003e (1967)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmong\u003c\/em\u003e (1972)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTree\u003c\/em\u003e (1972)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEarth\u003c\/em\u003e (1974)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePictograms from the Interior of B.C.\u003c\/em\u003e (1975)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLoki Is Buried at Smoky Creek\u003c\/em\u003e (1980)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eOwner's Manual\u003c\/em\u003e (1981)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBreathin' My Name with a Sigh \u003c\/em\u003e(1981)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrasp the Sparrow's Tail\u003c\/em\u003e (1982)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eWaiting for Saskatchewan \u003c\/em\u003e(1985)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRooftops\u003c\/em\u003e (1988)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo Far \u003c\/em\u003e(1991) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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, \u003cem\u003eEarth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTree\u003c\/em\u003e, reproduced to show the \"hands-on\" object-based aspect of chapbook publishing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/22\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889229471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.70d","brand":"Fred Wah","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52302201028789,"sku":"9780889229471","price":42.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6cd54d2b-ec0a-4d02-971b-ad76645757c3.jpg?v=1772552292","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/scree-the-collected-earlier-poems-1962-1991-9780889229471","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}