Canadian Literature's Issue 214 (Autumn 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Germaine Warkentin, Susan Gingell, Deanna Reder, Allison Hargreaves, Daniel Heath Justice, Kristina Fagan Bidwell, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Andrea King, Joanne Leow, and Ana María Fraile, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.
by Roy Miki
the leaves always
shiver in the snapshot
the eyes filled with frames
of bicycle spokes turning
i embalm myself and
undergo authentication
the tapes are turned off
to observe a minute of silence
a mound later dubbed "mountain"
is still the garbage dump
This poem originally appeared in Canadian Literature #163 (Winter 1999), Asian Canadian Writing. (pg. 17)
Reviewed by Paul Denham
Three books of stories by western Canadian writers indicate the range and energy of the short story in Canada. A lot of movement exists in these stories—though people occasionally move south, north, or even east, most of the time Eastern Canadians move west and Western Canadians move farther west. But west is an ambiguous direction for Canadians, leading sometimes to freedom and hope, sometimes (particularly in Aaron Bushkowsky’s book) to darkness and death. Families figure largel […more…]