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Encyclopedia > Roy Miki

Roy Akira Miki (born October 10, 1942) is a Canadian poet and scholar. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents. He attended the University of Manitoba, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, where he is currently a professor. He lives in Vancouver. He is very active is the Japanese-Canadian community and has fought hard for redress from the federal govenrment for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.


Works:

  • Saving Face - 1991
  • Random Access File - 1995
  • Broken Entries: Race Subjectivity Writing - 1998
  • Surrender - 2001 (winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for poetry)

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Miki, Roy Akira (254 words)
Miki, Roy Akira, poet, editor, educator (b at Winnipeg, Man 10 Oct 1942).
Miki's book Justice in Our Time: The Japanese-Canadian Redress Settlement (1991, in collaboration with Cassandra Kobayashi) documents the enforced internment of Japanese-Canadians during and after the war and the subsequent struggle for redress.
Miki has also written a critical study, The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams (1983), and an annotated bibliography of George BOWERING (1990).
Ryerson Library - Asian Heritage in Canada - Authors - Roy Miki (449 words)
Miki received a B.A. from the University of Manitoba, a M.A. from Simon Fraser University and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.
Roy Miki's first collection of poems is a brilliant discourse which sounds the originary, unheard of voices of family and community from the perspective of the "sansei" or third-generation Japanese Canadian.
Roy Miki's brilliant intermixture of the lyrical with the political, the moment with history, the brutal banality of the document with the tender touch of a hand, builds in a tour de force of clarity and beauty.
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