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V6a : Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

ISBN: 9781551524627 | 1551524627
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date: 9/4/2012

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SummaryTable of Contents
"Real, heart wrenching, sublime, and necessary."--Rawi Hage V6A is the postal prefix for Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Canada's poorest neighborhood and a prime example of the ramifications of urban blight in North America; it is also the epicenter of a notorious missing women's case in which many sex workers and others were murdered, and home to a controversial safe-injection site for drug users. This anthology refracts the experience of those who live and work in the Downtown Eastside, reappropriating the coding of the area and recasting the... MORE
Forewordp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. x
Introductionp. 1
Savour the Tastep. 15
The Eight-Year-Oldsp. 17
Dance Lightlyp. 22
The Fire Beforep. 24
A Child's Pleap. 32
Distant Traffic in Postcardsp. 33
An Old Spook and His Coyotep. 39
Muriel Marjorie, 16p. 42
... MOREp. 44
High-track, Low-trackp. 52
Disposablep. 55
Evolutionp. 58
Wine and Doorbellsp. 59
immaterial; unbroken chain; velvetp. 61
Painter and Loverp. 68
Elementalsp. 85
I Might Be Nothingp. 87
Ma; Ride Along East Hastings from the patricia Hotel to Woodward'sp. 89
A Little Girl Fightp. 95
Breakfast With Wordsworth; Creative Thinkingp. 97
Staplerp. 99
Compassp. 101
Clearp. 102
Disappearing Actp. 103
Watermelon; I Know That Soundp. 110
Seven Routes to Hogan's Alley: 2. A Homep. 114
Milonoap. 120
Poem #1p. 122
Death Isn't Lonely; Laundry Day with Charles Bukowski; Broken Keyp. 123
441 Powellp. 128
GTL or Gym Tan Laundry; Vancouver Sunrisep. 132
My Name Is Scot, Sfeid Road (Establishing Footage)p. 135
Creditsp. 140
About the Contributorsp. 142
About the Editorsp. 149
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