Threshold

by Pavlovic, Srdja

• ISBN13: 9780888643384
• ISBN10: 0888643381
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alberta Pr

Summary

A dynamic collection of Alberta's vibrant literary culture. Established names and emerging talents are brought together to demonstrate the outstanding calibre of writing in the province. Features contributions by Greg Hollingshead, Kristjana Gunnars, Rudy Wiebe, Myrna Kostash, E.D. Blodgett, Suzette Mayr, Thomas Wharton, Claire Harris, Fred Wah, and many others.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Srdja Pavlovic
Introduction: The Intimacy of Ink	xiii
Linda Goyette
Imaginary Alberta	1	(6)
Alice Major
Tales for an Urban Sky	7	(6)
5. The moon of tricycles	8	(1)
7. The moon of magpies quarrelling	9	(1)
10. The moon of strippers	10	(1)
12. The moon of fur coats	11	(2)
Roberta Rees
Hoar Frost	13	(4)
Richard Stevenson
Wait Till You See Her	17	(1)
That Mournful Ballad Sound	18	(3)
Claire Harris
Correspondence	21	(4)
Anne Le Dressay
Another Story Altogether	25	(2)
Just Darkness	27	(2)
Rosemary Nixon
Kiala	29	(18)
Anna Mioduchowska
Singing in the Garden	47	(2)
Small Island	49	(2)
In Bed with a Book	51	(2)
Norman Sacuta
Soft Shoe	53	(2)
Death of a Scuba Diver at West Edmonton Mall	55	(2)
Peter Prest
Drawers	57	(1)
Sunday Nights in the Early '50s	58	(1)
Caterina Edwards
Where the Heart Is	59	(8)
Hiromi Goto
Not Your Ethnic Body	67	(6)
Joseph Pivato
My Father's Escapes	73	(6)
Nigel Darbasie
Bridge Boys	79	(3)
Western Carnival 8^
Noah's Offspring	82	(1)
Tololwa M. Mollel
The Olive Tree	83
David Albahari
By the Light of the Silvery Moon	91	(6)
Robert Hilles
A Gradual Ruin	97	(8)
Greg Hollingshead
Daughter of God	105	(8)
Suzette Mayr
Toot Sweet Matricia	113	(8)
Ken McGoogan
Chasing Safiya	121	(14)
Myrna Kostash
Unmasking the Polish Dissident	135	(8)
Peter Oliva
A Day in the Life of Yevgeyi Yevtushenko	143	(16)
Douglas Barbour
The Shoes of the Titanic	159	(1)
in the dream Daphne	160	(1)
utamaro's women	161	(1)
Tom Thomson: 'The Jack Pine' 1916-1917	162	(1)
George Melnyk
An Exiled Trinity	163	(2)
Carol L. MacKay
Dusted on the Road to Madden	165	(1)
Gibbous on Tape	166	(1)
A Place of Clear Meaning	167	(2)
Kristjana Gunnars
Zoo	169	(8)
Monty Reid
Nisidoro	177	(2)
Stones near Stanley Point	179	(2)
Gossip Shoals	181	(2)
Fred Wah
Railing	183	(1)
Artknot Forty Nine	184	(1)
Music at the Heart of Thinking One Two Four	185	(1)
Music at the Heart of Thinking One Two Seven	186	(1)
E.D. Blodgett
Summer	187	(1)
O	188	(1)
Kabbala	189	(1)
Playing	190	(1)
Bert Almon
Feeding the Power Grid	191	(1)
Hampstead Elegies	192	(3)
Ruby Wiebe
Watch for Two Coyotes, Crossing	195	(20)
Fred Stenson
Midnight	215	(10)
Vivian Hansen
Sounding the Medicine Map	225	(4)
Thomas Wharton
Salamander	229	(18)
Curtis Gillespie
Guadalajara	247	(12)
Tim Bowling
Rhododendron	259	(2)
Family Bible	261	(2)
Notes on Contributors	263	(7)
About the Editor	270