Transcanada Letters (Paperback)

Paperback. Transcanada Letters by Roy Kiyooka was a landmark when it first appeared in 1975. Almost thirty years later, it remains one of the most remarkable literary texts in Canada. At once a document and a creative work, personal meditation and cultural manifesto, it engages the reader with Kiyooka's intimate voice speaking through his letters to family, as well as friends, many of them writers and visual artists. "Transcanada Letters" by Roy Kiyooka was a landmark when it first appeared in 1975 Thirty years later it remains one of the most remarkable literary texts in Canada "Transcanada Letters " which includes letters Kiyooka wrote from 1966 to 1975 offers a new generation of readers the opportunity to discover one of the most significant artistic and literary figures of Canada s modern cultural history Marvelously crafted "Transcanada Letters" is at once personal meditation and cultural manifesto travel diary and love missive a testimonial of friendship and a dispatch from the creative front Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.