{"id":457,"date":"2012-06-15T19:34:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/roy-kiyooka\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:34:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:34:01","slug":"kiyooka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/kiyooka\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Kiyooka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was a second generation Japanese Canadian. He was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1926, grew up in Calgary, Alberta and died in Vancouver, B.C. in 1994. He was a poet and also one of Canada’s first “multi-disciplinary” artists, and the subject of several important exhibitions during his lifetime. His visual artwork included paintings, sculpture, film, and photographs.\u00a0 Kiyooka studied at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (now named the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Art). During his career he taught at a number of universities including the University of British Columbia. Kiyooka was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Artist & the Moose: A Fable of Forget<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited and with an afterword by Roy Miki.
Burnaby, B.C.: LINEbooks, 2009.
PS8521 .I86 A78 2009<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Often zany and wildly humourous, The Artist & the Moose<\/em> features a narrator who is commissioned by the federal government to come up with a multicultural aesthetic for the 21st century. The answer, he thinks, resides in the big mystery that surrounds artist Tom Thomson. … While recognizing Thomson’s artistic legacy, Kiyooka’s fable offers a compelling critique of Canadian cultural nationalism and its violent appropriation of native land and culture, a long process of colonization that exiled the Moose from the very homely spaces once his own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

December\/February ’87 ’88<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Victor Coleman.
Illustrated by David Bolduc, with an original watercolour by Bolduc.
Toronto: Coach House, 1995.
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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Fontainebleau Dream Machine: 18 Frames From a Book of Rhetoric<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Coach House Press, 1977.
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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kiyoto Airs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: Periwinkle Press, 1964.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless These Eyes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Printed at the Coach House Press, 1967.
Limited ed. of 500 copies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Of Seasonal Pleasures and Small Hindrances<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: BC Monthly, 1978.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Roy Miki.
Burnaby, B.C.: Talonbooks, 1997.
PS8521 .I86 P32 1997<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kiyooka’s reputation as an artist has long been recognized. Such is not the case with his writing and poetry. For Kiyooka, the poetic text was not a supplement to his visual art, but a medium that he explored in the same spirit and imagination as that of his other work. This publication brings together all of his most important poetic works, including many that have only been available in very limited editions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

1998 Association for Asian American Studies Outstanding Book Award in Poetry (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pear Tree Pomes [sic]<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Illustrated by David Bolduc.
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

1987 Governor General’s Literary Awards–English Poetry (Nominated)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stoned Gloves<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Coach House Press, 1971?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Transcanada Letters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1975.
PS8521 .I86 T7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (NeWest from its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A unique post modern collection of personal meditations and intimate dialogues with close friends. With an introduction by Glen Lowry this new addition, combined with Pacific Letters<\/em> set for release in Fall 2004, shows Kiyooka\u2019 s process of writing and his views on the cultural industries in Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Non-fiction (Biography)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Daphne Marlatt.
Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1997.
FC106 .J3 K59 1997<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1993 Mary Kiyooka sat with her son Roy Kiyooka, one of Canada\u2019s most important avant-garde painters, and a tape recorder and in her native Japanese shared her memories with him\u2014her childhood in Japan, her arrival as a married woman in Canada, and her family\u2019s experience in Alberta during the Japanese internment period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Non-fiction (Biography)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pacific Rim Letters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Smaro Kambourelli.
Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2004.
PS8521 .I86 A4 2005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n

Ma misses the sun, warmth and colors of their faraway homeland, but her daughter sees magic in everything \u2014 the clouds in the winter sky, the \u201cfirework\u201d display when she throws an armful of snow into the air, making snow angels, tasting snowflakes. And in the end, her joy is contagious. Home is where family is, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This never before published work is a travel diary, cultural manifesto and unique post-modern collection of personal meditations\u2026. [It] engages the reader with Kiyooka\u2019s intimate voice speaking through his letters to family, as well as friends, many of them writers and visual artists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anthology (Portrait)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Roy Kiyooka, Vancouver 1973.” In Tata, Sam. A Certain Identity: 50 Portraits by Sam Tata<\/em>. Ottawa: Deneau, 1983, 53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TR681 .A7 T38 1983<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anthology (Portrait)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Roy Kiyooka.” In Tata, Sam. Portraits of Canadian Writers<\/em>, edited by John Metcalf. Erin, Ont.: Porcupine’s Quill, 1991, 82-[83].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special Collections TR681 .A85 T3 1991<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lowry, Glen Albert.  “After the End\/s: CanLit and the Unravelling of Nation, “Race,” and Space in the Writing of Michael Ondaatje, Daphne Marlatt, and Roy Kiyooka.”  Ph.D. diss., Simon Fraser University, 2001.
Available from Proquest Dissertations and Theses<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Miki, Roy. “The Difference that Difference Makes: Nation Formation, Asian Canadian, and the Unravelling Case of Roy K. Kiyooka.” Chap. in his In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing<\/em>. Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2011, 1-30.
PS8089.5 .A8 M55 2011<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

O’Brian, John, Naomi Sawada, and Scott Watson, eds.\u00a0 All Amazed for Roy Kiyooka<\/em>. Vancouver, B.C.: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002.
N6549 .K5 R69 2002<\/a>
Developed from the Roy Kiyooka Conference held at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (Vancouver, B.C.) October 1-2, 1999. Contributors include Roy Miki, Henry Tsang, Sheryl Conkelton and Scott Toguri McFarlane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pivato, Juliana, ed. Pictura: Essays on the Works of Roy Kiyooka<\/em>. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2020.
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Saul, Joanne. “Routes and Roots: The Auto\/biographical Voices of Mothertalk.” Chap. in her Writing the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in Canadian Literature<\/em>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
PS8119 .S28 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publisher Guernica Editions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Talonbooks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher NeWest Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catriona Jeffries Gallery<\/a> website<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy Kiyooka Fonds at Simon Fraser University Library<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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