Foreword: GARY GEDDES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; Savour the Taste: PHOENIX WINTER; The Eight-Year-Olds: ANNE HOPKINSON; Dance Lightly: BRENDA PRINCE; The Fire Before: MADELEINE THIEN; A Child's Plea: STEPHEN LYTTON; Distant Traffic in Postcards: JOHN BARRY; An Old Spook and His Coyote: DON MACDONALD; 16: MURIEL MARJORIE; Super Phat Angel Baby: CATHLEEN WITH; High-track, Low-track: ANTONETTE REA; Disposable: DON LARSON; Evolution: ELISABETH BUCHANAN; Wine and Doorbells: DAGGAR EARNSHAW; immaterial: JONINA KIRTON; unbroken chain (a mirror poem): JONINA KIRTON.
Summary
"An anthology that refracts the experience of writers, new and established, who have been part of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside in some way. Their work reappropriates the coding of the area and recasts the neighborhood as a site of creative energy and human dignity"--Provided by publisher.