Mossbank Canon
- Publisher
- Turnstone Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1982
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888010773
- Publish Date
- Jan 1982
- List Price
- $7.5
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Description
A long poem in sixty-four hexameters, following the parallel lives of Mao Tse Tung and Jong, a Chinese immigrant to rural Saskatechewan. Using a fugal form, Dyck intertwines the I Ching, the history of revolutionary China and immigrant life. "The December sun shone on banners waving / in Kwantung province a mother bore Jong / Banners blown : blown by the wind / Dark was the mountain: overcast in the north / in Human province : when Mao was born / a red star gleamed in the dark red north."
About the author
E. F. Dyck was writer-in-residence with the Festival of Words (Moose Jaw). In 2011-012, directed a "Writing for Your Life Program" for CMHA(SK). He currently edits TRANSITION, a magazine for, by, and about persons with lived experience of mental illness.