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Abstract: Fred Wah is a distinguished Canadian poet and critic, and a former Parliamentary Poet Laureate. In this interview, conducted in late 2020, Wah describes the personal and poetic importance of place—in particular, the Kootenay region of British Columbia—and the local or regional sensibilities of early peers and mentors, including Charles Olson. He discusses the expanded edition of his Music at the Heart of Thinking (2020), and the approach to poetic improvisation taken in that book. Wah also reflects upon the republication of his early works, and on recent projects, including beholden (2018), a poetic collaboration with Rita Wong.

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Abstract: Since its initial publication in 1972, Anahareo’s autobiography, Devil in Deerskins, has often been read as reinforcing the conventions of Canadian romantic nationalism and stereotypes of Indigenous women. However, reading the 2014 First Voices reissue of the text alongside autobiographical theory, the history of Indigenous women's publications in Canada, and the depiction of Anahareo in other works about herself and Grey Owl, suggests that in her descriptions of her younger self, Anahareo deliberately uses humour to engage with and refute the dominant literary depictions of Indigenous women and, in the process, models an Indigenous female intellectual tradition of autobiographical self-representation.

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