Cover Art: Nhan duc Nguyen

West Coast Lai—#44. 38/2 (Spring 2005)

Glen Lowry & Rita Wong

Editors' Notes

Larissa Lai

from Maria

Sharyn Yuen

from Like a Plague of Locusts

Larissa Lai

from Rachel

Ashok Mathur

from A Little Distillery in Nowgong—a multi-media novel

a.rawlings

from Wide Slumber for lepidopterists

Robyn Morris

"sites of articulation"—an interview with Larissa Lai

Cindy Mochizuki

perchfish girl

Weyman Chan

Two Poems

Rita Wong & Larissa Lai

sybil unrest

Hiromi Goto

writhe the psyche

Salma Hussain

the lady and the fire

Robyn Morris

Re-visioning Representations of Difference in Larissa Lai's When Fox Is a Thousand & Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

Jason Christie

Robot Poems

Tara Lee

Mutant Bodies in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl: Challenging the Alliance between Science and Capital

Cathy Stonehouse

If you get me out of here I will show you something: a confession in praise of the "dreaming disease."

Richard Harrison

Two Poems

Joanna Mansbridge

Abject Origins: Uncanny Strangers and Figures of Fetishism in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl

Rachel Zolf

from Human Resources: a work-in-progress

Stephen Collis

Three Anarchist Poems

Yasmin Ladha

"Tender Boon"

derek beaulieu

Four Visual Poems

Bennett Yu-Hsiang Fu

from "Meta-Morphing T'ien Hu: Sexual Transgression & Textual Transposition in When Fox is a Thousand"

Frances Kruk

Four Poems

Larissa Lai

Future Asians: Migrant Speculations, Repressed History & Cyborg Hope

Myron Campbell

Two Collages

Suzanne Zelazo

Amourous Tension—An Interview with Nicole Brossard

Rachel Zolf

An Interview with Lola Tostevin

Christine Sui Yee Hwang

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