_..~_ .__ md23 i-;. .,. ,..’ $, .’ \ii,\ ‘k .., ,_ ! ,);’ Gone htdlan. Raised ‘an average Caucasi an: Gill Reid “0-dI k ttbe Haida’s INemost artist. ByEve Johnson Lat Us NOW Appraise Famous Men. Was i thsra ever a 1 pal who didn’t believe hk story merited a place in history? BY Jack MacLeod 12 fan6tt far a Natlon. Aen L&esaue’s owernmsnt was doomed because it worked w well within the system it opposed. By I.M. Owen 14 Arf aad Artlffaa. Tbe ssason’s gin books in rsvisw, from the science of landscapes to th8 art of microchips. SY John Ouohton 24 Grlaf lIevIews. Short notices on rscsnt non%tion and poetry. Tba Tslllna P‘ Llas. bv Ttmoth” Flndlev hrorak fa caafw, by Ray _. Tha Impartal Calnadlan: Vlnesaf Massey In Olflce. by Claude Giswll Daaca wGb Gad ra, by Irving Laylon; Ths Geskaeper’s llauohlar. by Smcs Hunter: Small Hanas and lntlmats Beasts. by Mikbsl Gameau. translated fmm tbe French by Robert McGee I 21 Vlmy. by Pierre Gsrton 23 GN&efkma. bv Janette Tumer tlosniial A CGy Called July. by Howard Engil .._..__._____.._~A GbUds ftaan. bv Erfa Wright Encnuntm and Etq plomtlsns: Canadian Wrlten and Eurapsan Crllles. edited by Franz K. Stanzel and Wsldemar Zacharaslawfcz; VarleGes of Eslle: Ths Canadian blpsrlIsme,by Hallwrd IDsblle 31 Tha Play of tha Gyea. by Elias Canettt. b ‘Bnslatsd fmrn thl3 Gen nan ty Ralph Msnheim 39 Dfshaa& and Tbs C&tsd Lattpar Pssma 1947-fS77. by Robin Sk&m da EPAlRVMEWVS 3 Ffeld Nate8 39 Letlen I 5 Esallrh. Our Enallah. bv Bob Slackburn 41 Rscammended ChIldma’s Go&, by b&y Ainslie Smith Reeelved Flrsf Navafs.._. b”_, 53U”las____._ Glmw_._..~ CanWG 1110. 115 latsrvlew with Susan Kerslake. by RI. Macdonald 42 CaaLlt AcmsGe No. 1. by Mary 0. Trainer Matthew Gehraas Is a Tomnto freelance writer. Editor Gob Blackburn frequently contributes Mmments on English usage to thssa pages. Poet Maq dl Mlchale k at work on her first nwst. Barbara Carey’s latest poetry collsction. Undressing fhe Dark, will soon be published by Quarry Press. Tfm Chamberlain is an English instructor at Humber College. Poet and critic Flank Gawy’s new book. The Abbalshmi Suide lo I&, has just been published by Press Porc4ptc. JaN Ewaner is a shipper/receiver in Don Mills. Oat. Ray Flllp’s audiocassette of wngs. playing fhe RI.% has just been mlsased. GaDroe GIG’S cross-Canada travel book will be published In Februaw by Metbusn. Len Gasparlnl is a Tomato poet. Dsu~fas Glwsr’s most recent collectIon of short stories is Osg Ansmpfs lo lbmvn Man in Ssshafoon (Talonbooks). Weyas Grady is mssag- ing edttr of Hamwsmith magadne. Toronto altist Dawn Hood’s drawlngs appear thmsghout ths issue. Freelance writer Caffdaea Hssklns is associate edltor of Llssdnattm~. Eve Johnson is the art critic of the Vancower Sun Freelance writer R.F. Maedonald lit in Halifax. Barbara MacKay is a Tomato freelance writer and specialist In women’s studies. Ray Maclaran is the author of ffmwrsMe IW~~MM~, revfswsd on psgs 8 al tbls issue. Novelist and pollttcal scientkt Jack MaELead teaches at the University of Tomato. Alberfs Manpael’s anthology Evening Gmes: Chms of PamI and C/Mm will be pubiishsd sosn by Penguin. Ottawa poet Frank Manley edits tbs laerary magazfne Nsovo Masheen. Eva MeGrIds Is a Tomnto freelance writer. Sparllnp Mills is a Hatifas poet. Jan Noel lkcbsss In FrenchCanadIan history at York Unfvsrsity. Germand Mottoa is principal of Edndale College. Paul Orsnsfsln’a photographs of literary penonalitles appear frequentty in these pages. John llaphtan’s new book of poems. Mab Harir Los1 Wo&, WN be published nsxl spring & Rapweed Press. LM. Gwn is book cofum. nist for SucwsAd Ermcutivl magazine. Michael RIchardran Is currsntly complelfng an antbolotry 01 stories of the cb,wel@rwsr. Maw Alnslla Smilh writes lrsqueadty about chlklren’s books In these pages. Phll Sar~uy is a Tomnto writer and editor. Mary 0. Trainer is a lraelance wrftsr and punk-maker In Port Coquitlam. B.C. Poet and btbliigrapher Grace Whltsman lives in Hamilton. Oat. EDITOR 0 Michael Smith MANAGING EDITOR 0 Doris Cowan GENERAL MANAGER 0 Susan Traer CIRCULATION MANAGER 0 Susan Aihoshi ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER 0 Beth Bruder CONSULTANTS 0 Robert Farrelly 0 Jack Jensen 0 Mary Lu Toms CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 0 Eleanor Wachtel (West Coast) 0 K.G. Pmberl (Prairies) 0 Shirley Knight Morris 0 Paul Wilson 0 Ray Filip (Quebec) 0 Terry Goldie (East Coast) .*_z .-r._.-, .-;: . _. ..: ,... .-... _._ - . -.Yi.-?._. ..- Refugees from post-war Europe, Canada’s immigrant writers seek to ex and the tradition of ‘survival’ to lnclu cfe a tradition of ‘the journey’ EUJI~~~EA-~HSFZ. sunshhse.; snd Why is it a ghetto? (A ghetto is not all settlers to a society, the oppressed or soft breezes glxed our stay in van- bad-it is also a community, a support repressed, are gaining some repnxenta- cower a few weeks ago for the group, as well as a kind of exile.) Why Lion in media and the arts. How else no1 First National Conference of is the writer marginal? Because the to have their lives diminished? How else Italian-Csnadian Writers. I had writ@ is defined as “ethnic” or as to transcend OUT differences and discover come prepared for rain, the duck “other,” and therefore of sociological what is truly universal? Such are my head of my compacl umbrdla rather than literary interest. thoughts at home after a week of talk, thrusting its wooden beak out of There was a French term,-“l’itnagi- talk, talk, in three different languages. my flight bag. I remembered n&e,” that the titers from Quebec, One evening in Vamouva we *aw a another Italian-Canadian co”- primarily Pulvio Cacda and Anto”io performance of Manx. Micone’s play, fenam in May, 1984. in Rop~e, D’Alfonso. kept “sing. for which we Gens du Silence, translated as Voicelaw where I expected Mediterranean found no English equivalent. (The discos- People, whiCh portrays with compassion sun, hot a”d dry, and hstead found siona went back and forth in three the narrowed and often materialistic lives myself cold and damp, though “ot languages. English, French, and lfdia”.) of displaced people: misuable. My red leather shoes gave up “L’imaginaire,” as 1 understand it, is An immigrant worker is lar thpn a their soles in watery despair. cultural ?wlity,” the world BP it appears worker. An immigm”t father is less than The week inVanm”ver was very tightly in a novel or play or photograph or TV a father. &I immigrant husband is I.% scheduled, but rest assured that there wae program - what we “nderstsnd “life” tba” a husband. My house had to be big “a Fascists among us; the papers and to be through OUT arts. What Canada’s to contsin alI my dresms. It had to be panels, scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., immigrant writers are doing for the beautiful lib ha on our wedding day. It had to be wam~ like Nancy when she began to form and collected a” audience culture is expmlding the tradition of “Sur- was still Annunziam. usually sometime after 10. Ma!&g my vival” to include a tradition of “the v:ay across town on the Broadway bus, journey.” What the women writers of the Recognizing the people in the play, I was I expected to be late, but found instead world are doing is expanding the male moved to tears. The theatre that night a lone and jet-hxgged George Amabilc thematic tradition of love and death to allowed me that recognition. I found a patiently and thoughtfully sipping coffee. include birth. kind of catharsis. Wedlcontinued to belate, “otfromlack The first time I encountered a dewip- So why should you be interested? He’s of enthusiasm butrrom lack of sleep. The tion of giving bii in literature was in “ot your father! Afrer a r4i”g.i” arguing and laughter that marked all the Doris Lessii’a “owl, A Pmper I&w Halifax a young student once told me that debates continued into the small hours, riuge. Georgia O’Keeffe painted. with he couldn’t relate to my poem about giv- on the beach or in r&aurants and cafes. originality and dating, female shapes, i”g birth, that I should wib about a more Where did all these ItalianCanadian fmm a” American landscape, not co”- universlrl experience. Is the problun a witers come from? A table was set up lack of negative capability, a failure to see featuring the works 6f the participants. how we are related? Are we more ready The hiitorical, literary, and critical to pm”ou?ce or denounce things as publications were numerous. The content foreign because they are not immediately was diverse. Those who had now recognizableasourown? MarmMimne, Italian-Canadian content in their work - who is a male, calls himself, and is, a and Anglo names like Ken Norris -had femi”ist playwright. He pointed out that come because they identified with a sen- the photographic show on display in the sibility and a history. (Norris was raised library where we met was entirely the by his Neapolitan mother and gmnd- work, and thus l’imaginaire, of me”. mother.) Less than IO years ago Pier Why did we come to this cmmtryl Giorgio di Cicco had to search among the Because people in post-war Italy in the very few and unknown in order to collect south were jobless and landless and submissions for his anthology of Italian- hungry.