edited by KIRSTEN E. MCALLISTER

with contributions from

LONDI LUYEYE BEKETCH

JASON BERGEN

BILLY BRIGGS

ANGELA CATLIN

GARY CHRISTIE

JENNIFER FERGUSON

FEMI FOLORUNSO

ANTHONY GOOD

GRAMNET

IYAD HAYATLEH

KUSAY HUSSAIN

RACHEL JURY

KARIBU

REBECCA KAY

JANICE LANE

MARYHILL AND CENTRAL & WEST INTEGRATION NETWORKS

BELINDA MCELHINNEY

ALISON PHIPPS

TESSA RANSFORD

REBECCA ROTTER

SUE REID SEXTON

LIAM STEWART

ISEULT TIMMERMANS

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Chinmoy Banerjee

Lesley Battler

Michael Boughn

Clint Burnham

Cris Costa

Jasmine Johnston

Danielle LaFrance

Donato Mancini

Rob Manery

Justin Novak

Greg Placonouris

Robert Prey

Pat Smith

Mandy Woo

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edited by Jerry Zaslove & Bill Jeffries

Texts by

Ian Angus

Lee BAcchus

Michael Barnholden

Michael Bourke

Rob Brownie

Willie brisco

Kathi Diamant

Brian Graham

Mark Jaskela

Bill Jeffries

Tom Mcgauley

Tom Morris

ryan andrew murphy

carl peters

Kaia Scott

Peyman Vahabzadeh

Jerry Zaslove

• MEREDITH QUARTERMAIN from Rupert’s Land
• CHRIS EWART Bamboo
• JENN FARRELL Lot’s Wife
• GARRY THOMAS MORSE The Chaos! Quincunx
• KIM MINKUS Fifteen
• TONY POWER Poolnapping
• KIM GOLDBERG 3 Micro Fictions
• MICHAEL TURNER Prairie Intellectuals (Part Two)
• CRIS COSTA Of the Invisible
• HANNAH CALDER Red Devil
• ROGER FARR from IKMQ
• MARWAN HASSAN Crinkum-Crankum
• DAPHNE MARLATT Learning to Live Underwater
• NICOLE MARKOTIC Her Mouth Deleting Kisses
• cover HOLLY SCHMIDT Biodegradation 2009

• JAMELIE HASSAN Introduction
• MITSUYO WADA-MARCIANO My remarks on Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said
• FAROUK KASPAULES Be/Longing
• JULIE SANDO Reading the Massage: Oriental Rose in Context
• JEFF THONMAS Resistance is Futile
• JULIA EMBERLEY On Intimate Geographies, Edward Said, and the Worlding of Everyday Life
• SILVIA NAEF Exhibiting the Work of Artists from “Islamic” Backgrounds in the West: Current Practices and Future Perspectives
• JEN BUDNEY The Testimony of Edward Said
• SAMER ABDELNOUR An update from Burj El-Barajne, Palestinian refugee camp
• LYNNE BELL & LEN M. FINDLAY Orientalism & Ephemera: Two States or One?
• RON BENNER: Testimonials: Watercolours as Evidence
• HANK BULL We Thinkings
• NASRIN HIMADA Cinematic Resistance in Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention
• STACEY HO Thoughts on ephemera
• TIM SHARP Orientalism
• MIRIAM JORDAN and JULIAN JASON HALADYN: An Ephemeral Dialogue with Jamelie Hassan
• SALAH D. HASSAN Bondage
• JAYCE SALLOUM interrupting </> orientalism: denying the trajectory
• JUMANA BAYEH A “Hyphenated” Identity: Writing about Lebanese Diaspora Fiction within an Australian Context
• RAJA SHEHADEH An Imagined Sahara: Wadi Dalb
• RAWI HAGE Portrait of Edward Said

• ROBERT BEAN Folds & Études
• CARLOS REYES Wh S Nl ght nm nt?
• LYNDL HALL In a network of lines that enlace / intersect
• WINFRIED SIEMERLING Transcultural Improvisation, Transnational Time, and Diasporic Chance in Wayde Compton’s Textual Performance
• R.L. CUTLER Open Wide
• AYAKA YOSHIMIZU The “Poetics” of Ethnographic Life Writing: Learning Form from Diasporic Senryu Practices
• DONATO MANCINI If Violence (Hey You)
• KIM MINKUS Billboards
• ANDY WEAVER Gangson
• NICO VASSILAKIS 4 Concreat Visuels
• cover: ROBERT BEAN: Colossus 1

• JOSHUA S. HOEYNCK To Hear the Environment Speak: Charles Olson and Alfred North
• Whitehead recast the projective stance
• CATHERINE MCNEIL Iron Workers Memorial Bridge
• SHANE RHODES from X
• IVAN DRURY Letter from Belarus
• ROBERT SWEREDA from paper play
• MICHAEL BOUGHN Book 11 & 12 from Cosmographia: a post-Lucretian faux micro-epic
• NIKKI REIMER Gentrified
• HILARY SMITH Dinner and More
• CECILY NICHOLSON Economy Comely
• RODRIGO TOSCANO & NATALIE KNIGHT from Conditions of Poetic Production
• and Reception
• MIKE BORKENT from Empirical Data
• cover: MICHAEL BARNHOLDEN: Market Alley, Vancouver, 2008.

• SETH FORREST “Mu-sick, mu-sick, mu-sick”: Olson’s Stammer and the Poetics of Noise
• CARMEN PAPALIA from The Long Poem of Walking
• KIM GOLDBERG from RED ZONE
• THOR POLUKOSHKO from MC Appropriation
• IVAN DRURY Letter from Belarus
• COLIN SMITH from procedural
• Wendy Naava Smolash BACK to BACK
• SACHIKO MURAKAMI How to Build a Vancouver Special
• SHAUN HANNA Dante’s Commedia
• MYKA TUCKER-ABRAMSON Chile of the North?: British Columbia’s Universities and the Neoliberal Revolution
• cover: BRENDAN LEE SATISH TANG Manga Ormolu Ver. 5.0-e, 2009.

LAWRENCE ARONSEN

The Sodom of the North: Vancouver’s Sexual Revolution 1961-1974

ADAM SEELIG &

DONATO MANCINI

Interview

DAVID MARRIOTT

Waves

ROGER FARR

from IKMQ

KATE EICHORN reviews Light Sweet Crude

ELENA BASILE reviews Found

CHINMOY BANERJEE reviews Choker Bali

IVAN DRURY Letters from Belarus

JASON STARNES

The Archaeologist of Morning Spends his Nights in the Map Room: Charles Olson as Radical Geographer

KIM MINKUS

Station

ROBERT DUNCAN

The H.D. Book: Book Three

JOANNE HUI &RUTH MANDUJANO LOPEZ

Insert: The Potato Wars

West Coast Line 59 vol 42.3, Fall 2008

Citizenship and Cultural Belonging

Special Issue edited by Sophie McCall and David Chariandy

• David Chariandy & Sophie McCall | Introduction: Citizenship and Cultural Belonging
• Tracy Kulba | Citizen Crusaders: Social Hygiene and the Production of the Female Citizen in
• Post-World War One Canada
• David Khang | A Wrong Place (Greening the dmz)
• Katja Sarkowsky | Nesei Negotiations: Citizenship and the Nation in Japanese Canadian Writing
• Roy Miki | Raw Data
• Alessandra Capperdoni | Feminist Progenies-Unlawful Citizenship: Reproduction, Technology and the Spectres of the Nation in Margaret Atwood and Larissa Lai
• Sam McKegney | Tenuous Tolerance: The Politics of Inconvenience From Kanehsatake to Caledonia
• Erín Moure | Beacons
• People’s Hist ory of Canada/Kanada Poster Project (2007) | a collaboration between No One Is
• Illegal-Vancouver and grassroots artists
• Armand Garnet Ruffo | Celebrating Canada’s Centennial (from Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing Into
• Thunderbird)
• Sharron Proulx-Turner | her voice like downpour on cement
• Deborah L Madsen | 100 ‘Mo No Boy’: The Negative Rhetoric of Nation in the work of Wayson Choy
• Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber | Super Citizens (2005)
• Lariss a Lai | Community Action, Global Spillage: Writing the Race of Capital
• Jamelie Hassan & Tyson Haller | Still from documentary film, Sister Speak to Me-A Tribute to Zahra Kazemi (2003)
• Sonnet L’Abbé | Love Amid the Angloculture
• Beverley Curran | Citizenship, Interrupted: The Dialogic Interpreter in Obasan
• Gillian Roberts | “The Greatest Hotel on Earth”: Citizenship, Nationality, and the Circulation of Canadian Literature
• Trish Salah | water borders white money