WCL 31/1

West Coast Line 31/1 Spring/Summer 1997

Table of Contents

Peter Hudson

Editor's Note: In the Country of the Snow Blind

Kwame Dawes

from Pilgrimage

Wayde Compton

Three Poems

Melinda Mollineaux

Artist Project

Leslie Sanders & Arun Mukherjee

A Sense of Responsibility: An Interview with Claire Harris

Rinaldo Walcott

"A Tough Geography": Towards a Poetics of Black Space(s) in Canada

Nikola Marin

Chinese Laundry: One of Those Mysteries You Can't Solve with Just a Dictionary

Lily Spence

Three Poems

Damian Lopes

Five Poems

Kwame Dawes

360 Degrees Black: A Conversation with Lillian Allen

Carlyle N. Matthew

Masks

Suzette Mayr

The Bed-side Table

Claire Harris

Love, Do You Remember

Nadine King Chambers

Lena & Hue

Deanna Bowen

Sadomasochism: A Work in Progress

George Elliott Clarke

Clarke vs. Clarke: Tory Elitism in Austin Clarke's Short Fiction

Lillian Allen

Stereo-Type Friggin': The Ethnic and the Visible Minority... in STereo... TYped to Fit

Mercedes Baines

Half Baked Zebra Cake

Leslie Sanders

"The Mere Determination to Remember": M. Nourbese Philip's "Stop Frame"

Jan Wade

Epiphany

George Elliott Clarke

Two Poems

Vanessa Richards

tupac came to me in a dream

Reviews / Commentaries

Wayde Compton

"Even the Stars are Temporal": The Historical Motion of George Elliott Clarke's Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues

Lisette Boily

on Suzette Mayr's Moon Honey