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Fred Wah
Reads at Kootenay School of Writing
Book Launch
Saturday, October 299, 1991
Authors who read on this date:
Fred Wah
Programme
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Wah, part A |
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Wah, part B |
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Wah, whole reading |
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A reading to celebrate the launch of Wah's book So Far (Talonbooks 1991).
Saturday, July 29/89
Oh golden, Golden morning!
West of Golden we leave the trans-Canada and drive north about 60 k up Blaeberry River past Doubt Hill. From the chopper site we can see south to Howes Pass , a long sweep of valley brilliant in a pillowed mid-summer heat-haze. An hour's spent wrapping the cars and trucks in chicken wire (old paranoid alpine parking-lot visions of the imaginary porker chewing our tires and rad hoses). Camp's just west, a ten-minute bezier curve, swirl, and plop up Wildcat Creek, on a west slope facing east to the contintental divide ridgeline of the B.C./Alberta boundary.
Ringed by glaciers as usual
Ayesha, Baker, Parapet.
While we set up camp during the afternoon I'm in a global mode, you know, the simultaneity of the world going on right now. Paris. Kyoto. Beijing. The pavement of Tiananmen Square, the hotlines sniffing out the dissidents, CBC bulletin even e-mail media drama of the last two months still in the air, even up here, radioless, only antennaed in my bones (our name is bones, and your name is my name).
- Fred Wah, from "Dead In My Tracks: Wildcat Creek Utaniki"
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