Yeah, Gerald, that's right. And some essays in an issue of West Coast
LIne. But in Canada, as Ron notes in his blog, while also noting that a
lot of Canadian poetry simply didn't make it across the border, Kiyooka
was known, if also sometimes dismissed by many who couldn't get what he
was about. Which is to say that there were readers who couldn't like
precisely what Ron finds so fascinating about his work. He played a
mean flute (little improvs) too...
I should note that NeWest Press will be publishing a new edition of his
amazing Transcanada Letters, and the new, equally amazing, Pacific
Letters, later this Spring. They re his collected correspondence, they
are also a kind of poetry. I wrote an essay o the former, which is in
my Lyric / Anti-lyric. Then there are the varieties of his visual art.
The man was one of those rare renaissance multi-media artists.
Doug
On 7-Mar-05, at 7:14 AM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
> An issue of danDELion a year back ws devoted in full
> to R. K., addressing all the media he forged.
>
> Cheers,
> Gerald Schwartz
>
> http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
>
>
> RECENT POSTS
>
> Discovering Roy Kiyooka -
> better late than never
>
> Finland -
> when the written language
> dates only to 1850.
>
> Museum audio headsets:
> look at the damn art
>
> Dalí's Photoshop:
> Under the surrealist
> there lay a realist
>
> Indoors vs. outdoors
> as an aesthetic experience
> (a nod to Edwin Denby)
>
> Central Park sans Gates:
> What was that, exactly?
>
> Bruce Sterling's Zeitgeist:
> The Coleridge of cyberpunk
> takes on Y2K
> and parenting
>
> Lyn Hejinian's sentence:
> inviting, inclusive, powerful
>
> RIP Hunter S. Thompson
>
> Where will poetry be in 20 years?
> Looking for a stake in the ground
>
> Erica Weitzman, Laura Sims,
> Jon Cone & the new
> Six by Six
>
> Prose poem magazines -
> what do they mean?
> (with an aside
> on the politics of haiku)
>
> http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
care to be more
precise about whatever
it is you are
saying, I said
Bill Manhire
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