The Pivot of Athwartedness: Roy Kiyooka's "Pacific Windows"
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Date
2020
Authors
Austen, Veronica J.
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Guernica
Abstract
Published as a full issue of The Capilano Review in August 1990, Roy Kiyooka’s “Pacific Windows” exists on the periphery of Kiyooka’s canon. Despite the various ways in which this text
could be considered the culmination of what Kiyooka deems his “photo/glyphic epic” (“Notes” 94), “Pacific Windows,” unlike his other photoglyphic texts StoneDGloves and Wheels, has achieved scant critical attention. Perhaps the relative neglect of this text is a testament to the power of a collected works in framing scholarly discourse. Understandably, at 96 pages, the length of “Pacific Windows” in its photoglyphic form was prohibitive for its inclusion in the collected works, so unlike StoneDGloves and Wheels, which appear with their photographs, “Pacific Windows” appears as text without images in Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka. Its role in Kiyooka’s photoglyphic epic is, thus, obscured.
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This chapter appears in Pictura: Essays on the Works of Roy Kiyooka, edited by Juliana Pivato (Guernica, 2020).
Keywords
Roy Kiyooka, Pacific Windows, verbal/visual relations, cultural athwartedness, photoglyphic