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	Wah, Fred (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Wah, Fred, poet, editor, teacher (b at Swift Current, Sask 1939).
		Wah was educated at UBC where he founded, edited and wrote for Tish magazine.
		Wah's poetry is influenced by his experiments with language, his interest in jazz and the magical geography of the Kootenay area.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008409 (193 words)

	e.Peak (16/10/2006) arts: Lit: Bridging human divides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Wah has been nationally recognised as a contributor to the work of racialised poetics, actively transcending the borders of ethnicity and identity.
		Wah will continue to contribute to this ethic of community in the broader sense as he develops his current work, a focus on collaboration with photographers and other visual artists.
		Fred Wah will remain the Writer in Residence at SFU for the 2006/2007 school year and, I’m sure, will contribute greatly to that radical community of masterminds with all of the right words and syntax for meaningful expression that is, despite all, undeniably cool.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/2006-3/issue7/ar-wah.html (465 words)

	Fred Wah
		Wah is one of our master writers: he writes and thinks poetry simultaneously, something all too often lacking in our literary tradition.
		So the book starts us gently, Wah musing on how he learned to "fake it in language" (13+), all the while desiring "truth and the real, absolute face of feeling" (15), taking to "the poem as jazz, as a way to subvert the authority of the formal" (16).
		Wah's [no-doubt unfinished] list begins with code-switching itself (82+), includes the strategies of deterritorialization (88+), the paradigms of trans - X (94+), and moves on to their detailed realizations in word/image oppositions, broken syntax, space and silence, irony, and so on.
	www.wtc.ab.ca /tedyck/RN.1.R.td.wah.htm (1424 words)

	The Case of the Missing Identity: The Examination of Identity in the Works of Fred Wah and Clark Blaise
		Two author's, Fred Wah and Clark Blaise, because of their own pursuits of the soul, have deeply explored the idea of identity.
		Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, the child of Chinese and Scandinavian parents, and moved to Trail, British Columbia when he was still young.
		Wah's conclusion, seems to be that he will be the perpetual outsider because of his Metis identity.
	home.intranet.org /~gen/personal/essays/clit172wah.html (2440 words)

	30/06/97 -- Arts: The Diamond Grill
		Wah considers the different foods of one's youth to be "things we don't always taste willingly but forever after crave," relating to his reader how taste, as a point of reception and a way of making sense of our environment, can be so deeply imbedded into one's memory.
		However, Wah said he identifies with his Chinese[ness] because he was always told he was Chinese by society, the patrilineal history of his family interests him, there are elements of exociticism in exploring the unknown, and finally, it was an effort to increase understanding of Chinese culture.
		Wah describes how "bp Nichol taunted [him] to overwrite [his] fear of the tyranny of prose," but the product (approximately 10 years in the making) is something neither entirely prose or poetry.
	www.peak.sfu.ca /the-peak/97-2/issue9/wah.html (827 words)

	UCFV hosts poet Fred Wah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Acclaimed poet Fred Wah will read at the University College of the Fraser Valley this Wednesday, October 27, at 7:30 pm at University House on the Abbotsford campus.
		Wah is a poet, editor, professor emeritus, and Governor General’s award winner.
		The Wah reading is part of the B.C. Writers Series being presented at UCFV this fall.
	www.ucfv.bc.ca /crd/News-releases/NR-archives/2004-releases/FredWah.htm (148 words)

	FFWD Weekly - May 22, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		To mark the end of Wah’s teaching career this spring, a group of students and colleagues, in true academic fashion, organized a conference, Alley Alley Home Free!, in recognition of his unique contribution to Canadian letters.
		Her admiration for Wah is due in part to his commitment to his craft as a poet.
		Wah cites American poets Duncan and Robert Creely as his major influences, as the Canadian scene on the West Coast was isolated from eastern poets.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2003/0522/book1.htm (835 words)

	Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity by Joanne Saul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fred Wah's Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity is the latest in the 'Writer as Critic' series published by NeWest Press and edited by Smaro Kamboureli.
		Although a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Calgary, Wah is suspicious of the 'hegemony of constructed institutions.' Moreover, as someone preoccupied with genre-bending in all of his writing, he more often challenges the conventional structure of the critical essay than embraces it.
		For example, Wah grounds a posthumous and intimate 'dialogue' with his friend, the poet bp nichol, in a discussion of nichol's 'last notebook.' 'Dear Hank' is an essay-letter to Hank Lazer; 'Loose Change' engages the poetic concerns of Louis Cabri in a discussion of the materiality of language.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/711/fred101.html (555 words)

	Fred Wah
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	Fred Wah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frederick James Wah (born January 23, 1939) is a Canadian-Chinese poet, novelist, and scholar.
		Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but raised in the interior (West Kootenay) of British Columbia.
		Wah retired after 40 years of teaching and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with his wife Pauline Butling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Wah (347 words)

	nether :: a review diablogue: [a letter to Fred [Wah]] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fred, you were — are — a constant thorn in the side of the Calgary writing community.
		Fred, i don’t know if you consciously model your teaching style on Tallman’s example, but there’s no question in my mind that the words “resistance” & “baffling” are more than appropriate to your work in a classroom.
		You don’t strike me, Fred, as someone for idle chatter, for shootin’-the-shit as it were.
	commutiny.net /her/archives/000140.html (794 words)

	Talonbooks.com :: Author Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939 and grew up in the Kootenays of B.C. He attended the University of B.C. and was one of the founding poets of the TISH group.
		Some of Fred Wah's earlier work is included in Imago 20 (1974); Selected Poems: Loki is Buried at Smokey Creek (1980); and in Breathin' My Name With a Sigh (1981).
		Fred Wah teaches at the University of Calgary in Alberta and divides his time between Calgary and the Slocan Valley in B.C. Books by Fred Wah
	www.talonbooks.com /index.cfm?event=authorDetails&authorID=201 (180 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nonetheless, the poetry of Fred Wah, a student of Olson and Robert Creeley, is best understood in this context.
		Wah has carved out a position for himself in western Canadian literary culture that is all but unassailable.
		But like a cat landing on her feet, Wah always comes back to the "speaking singing / soul carried forward / lines of a life, truth written / in the lie of a word" (Music at the Heart).
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/una185/5934_kizuk.html (981 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Since the early 1960s, Fred Wah’s poetry, the magazines he has edited, and the writing communities he has supported have challenged the form, function, and content of poetry and poetics in Canada.
		Wah's poetry has been published in hundreds of poetry magazines around the world and reprinted in more than forty anthologies.
		One of the most significant voices in contemporary North American poetry, Wah is currently affiliated with other Asian-Canadian writers who seek to redress and rewrite the colonizing racism of western transnational ideologies.
	www.english.ucalgary.ca /NewCourses/engl509-605.htm (220 words)

	100 Canadian Poets - Fred Wah - Profile
		Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, in 1939 and was raised in the interior (West Kootenay's) of British Columbia.
		Well known for his work on literary journals and small-press, Wah has been a contributing editor to Open Letter since its beginning, involved in the editing of West Coast Line, and with Frank Davey edited the world's first online literary magazine, SwiftCurrent as well as several other projects.
		In 1985, Wah won the Governor General's Literary Award in the poetry category for his Waiting for Saskatchewan.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/f_wah.htm (454 words)

	ABCBookWorld
		Wah's interest in music (trumpet) led him towards poetry and his development of what Stan Persky has labelled "Wah's quick-brush style".
		Fred Wah's father was a Canadian-born Chinese-Scots-Irishman raised in China; his mother is a Swedish-born Canadian from Swift Current.
		Wah senior ran the Diamond Grill, where Fred, the future writer and poet, grew up, white enough to "pass," yet marked for life by a foreign name and a taste for foong cheng and lo bok.
	www.abcbookworld.com /?state=view_author&author_id=1874 (1032 words)

	Ryerson Library - Asian Heritage in Canada - Fred Wah
		Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939 but grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia.
		Wah received a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in English literature and music before pursuing graduate studies in literature and linguistics in the U.S. where he eventually earned an M.A. from SUNY at Buffalo.
		This volume includes work selected from each of Fred Wah's earlier books of poetry: Lardeau, Mountain, Among, Tree and Pictograms from the Interior of B.C. ; in addition to unpublished work and work from the manuscript edition of Breathin' My Name With a Sigh.
	www.ryerson.ca /library/events/asian_heritage/wah.html (359 words)

	Canadian Author Speaks about Award-winning "Bio-fiction"
		Canadian author and poet Fred Wah will present a paper on his award-winning work of “bio-fiction” when he visits the Whitman campus Thursday, Feb. 23.
		“Diamond Grill” is based on Wah’s personal experiences growing up in Canada the son of a Chinese-Scots-Irish father and a Swedish-born Canadian mother, in a diner that featured a multi-ethnic menu of sugar donuts, bird’s nest soup, steak, milkshakes and lo bok.
		Wah says he identifies with his Chinese ancestry because that is the way society defines him, and some readers have found his book to be a vehicle for talking about cultural dislocation and discrimination.
	www.whitman.edu /content/news/FedWah (353 words)

	Slought Foundation, Philadelphia: Contemporary Art and Theory
		Slought Foundation presents a digitized version of Fred Wah’s recordings of the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference, as well as select readings and lectures (1961-67) from Wah's collection.
		Copyright note: All recordings by Fred Wah, with prior permission from the poets.
		No part of this project may be stored in a retrieval system or reproduced in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise.
	slought.org /toc/Vancouver1963 (241 words)

	Fantasy Football Sharks :: View topic - Fragile Fred doesn't want to share
		News: Despite having a pretty good game against the Texans in Week 7 (103 total yards with a costly fumble), Jags RB Fred Taylor is sticking to his comments about the RB rotation system hurting his attempt to earn his incentives.
		Fred has done better in the past few years for injuries, but overall what percentage of games has he played over his career?
		Fred has indeed been a great RB when healthy- I'm sure it's hard for any player to accept that they're career is beginning to wind down.
	www.fantasysharks.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=99129 (1067 words)

	Writer-in-Residence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As a poet, public intellectual, editor, and educator, Fred Wah is one of Canada’s most influential and respected writers.
		The writer-in-residence, Fred Wah, will be doing manuscript consultations on Tuesdays and Wednesdays starting January 9 at Harbour Centre, SFU Downtown.
		After making an appointment, please submit hard copies in Fred Wah's mailbox (at the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, downtown, or, at least two weeks prior to appointment, beside the English Department's general office, AQ 6129, in Burnaby), limited to 10 pages for poetry (one poem per page) and 15 pages (double-spaced) for fiction/non-fiction.
	www.sfu.ca /english/wah.htm (343 words)

	OneZeroZero: Authors: Fred Wah
		Fred Wah was born in Swift Current Saskatchewan of Chinese and Scandinavian parents.
		While attending the University of British Columbia he and fellow poets George Bowering, Frank Davey, David Dawson and Jamie Reid founded TISH magazine under the tutelage of Warren Tallman (and visiting Bay Area poet Robert Duncan).
		Fred went on to do graduate work under Robert Creeley at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and with Charles Olson et al at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
	www.ccca.ca /history/ozz/english/authors/wah_fred.html (268 words)

	NeWest Press: Faking It
		According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery.
		This scrapbook of Wah’s work— collected from fifteen years of his writing— contains essays, reviews, journals, notes and, most importantly, poetic improvisations on contemporary poetry and identity.
		Faking It was written between 1984 and 1999— during major shifts in critical thinking and cultural production— and the hybrid style of the book is an apt reflection of these changing times, as well as a reflection and study of Wah’s own hybrid identity.
	www.newestpress.com /books/faking.html (106 words)

	Fred Wah Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Poems of landscape, language and memory from Wah's earlier books.
		Beginning with an editorial conversation around "the work so far" in 1990, this book has become a great deal more than simply a "progress report" from one of our leading poets.
		Poet Fred Wah explores of possibilities contemporary language with these jazzlike improvisations and unpredictable wordplays that outmaneuver the text to get home without being tagged.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Fred_Wah (258 words)

	The Parliamentary Poet Laureate - Poem of the Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Fred Wah was born in Saskatchewan, grew up in the West Kootenay, and has recently retired from a career as teacher and poetry mentor in the Kootenays and Alberta.
		University of Calgary - 100 Canadian Poets - Fred Wah Profile
		FFWD Weekly - True grit: Tough-minded poet Fred Wah leaves legacy at U of C
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/people/poet/poem-of-the-week/poets-e.htm?param=4 (103 words)

	Meaning Sounding - by Blair Rosser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Here is a liberation of language where the basic elements have their own value and any attempt to manipulate them is put on hold.
		The stress in this piece is on a primal response to language, and in Wah's notes to the series (numbers 1-10) he maintains that he has tried to avoid the censors which work to limit creation in the name of a conventional coherence.
		It is thus impossible to talk about any specific meaning in the text, but one can look at effects and combinations of meaning, what words and combinations of words imply, how and why certain images and their symbolic constituents, emes, add to the whole of the work.
	7thfloormedia.com /sasq/fredwah.htm (606 words)

	Slought Foundation: "PhillyTalks #7" with Stefans, Wah, et al.
		Brian Kim Stefans is the author of Free Space Comix (Roof, 1998) and the forthcoming Angry Penguins (Object).
		A collaboration with Sianne Ngai, "The Cosmopolitans" was featured as the second issue of the zine Interlope, published by Summi Kaipa out of Iowa City.
		Wah has written numerous critiques of contemporary Canadian and American literature.
	slought.org /content/11072 (319 words)

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