Breathin' My Name With A Sigh (1978)

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srudy
April, 2009

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Published by Coach House Press MS Editions, second draft of Breathin' My Name With A Sigh, first published in 1978 when issued on the occasion of the B.C. Heritage Poetry festival held in the Simon Fraser University Pub on May 27, 1978 as part of the 'Six B.C. Poets' portfolio.

Citation

title:

Breathin' My Name With A Sigh

title without prefix:

Breathin' My Name With A Sigh

full citation:

Wah, Fred. Breathin' My Name With A Sigh. Toronto: Coach House Press MS> Editions, 1979.

publication date:

1979

first published:

1978

archival date:

2009

number of pages:

84

publisher name:

Coach House Press MS. Editions

catalogue description:

A7B Breathin' My Name with a Sigh 1979

BREATHIN' MY NAME WITH A SIGH. Coach House Press Ms Editions. Second Draft Jan. 1979.

BREATHIN’ MY NAME WITH A SIGH | Fred Wah | Second Draft Jan 1979 | Coach House Press MS. Editions
Pp. [1-84]
7 ¼ x 10 ¾ in.; 18 ½ x 27 ½ cm. Stapled. Grey card covers with cut-out square for title and Coach House Press logo.

[1] title-page; [2-6] blank; [7] text; [8] blank; [9] text; [10] blank; [11] text; [12] blank; [13] text; [14] blank; [15] text; [16] blank; [17] text; [18] blank; [19] text; [20] blank; [21] text; [22] blank; [23] text; [24] blank; [25] text; [26] blank; [27] text; [28] blank; [29] text; [30] blank; [31] text; [32] blank; [33] text; [34] blank; [35] text; [36] blank; [37] text; [38] blank; [39] text; [40] blank; [41] text; [42] blank; [43] text; [44] blank; [45] text; [46] blank; [47] text; [48] blank; [49] text; [50] blank; [51] text; [52] blank; [53] text; [54] blank; [55] text; [56] blank; [57] text; [58] blank; [59] text; [60] blank; [61] text; [62] blank; [63] text; [64] blank; [65] text; [66] blank; [67] text; [68] blank; [69] text; [70] blank; [71] text; [72] blank; [73] text; [74] blank; [75] text; [76] blank; [77] text; [78] blank; [79] text; [80-82] blank; [83] advertisement; [84] blank.

Published in Toronto; 1979; Price: $4.40

Titles: note—untitled (“I like the purity of all things seen…”)—untitled (“Be careful story. Father, when you died you left me…”)—untitled (“I thought where I came from we grow up also…”)—untitled (“Are origins magnetic lines across an ocean…”)—untitled (“I lie here and wait for life again…”)—untitled (“What else was there outside in the dark but…”)—untitled (“No foolin I thought I was gonna die…”)—untitled (“Now know why you missed dreaming…”)—untitled (“Not o much all of us dying…”)—untitled (“WHAT’S IT LIKE TO HOLD YOURSELF IN…”)—untitled (“If I don’t pass the impasse what’ll happen?...”)—untitled (“Words fly from our mouth as leaves…”)— untitled (“this is a gash…”)— untitled (“death stick’s tool…”)— untitled (“Flesh, as if…”)— untitled (“next spring…”)— untitled (“outside its snowing…”)—untitled (“Loki Death Dog Died…”)—untitled (“my father hurt-…”)—untitled (“Brother then brothers…”)— untitled (“the first bridge was in Trail B.C.…”)— untitled (“mother…”)— untitled (“Breathe dust like you breathe wind so strong in your face little…”)—untitled (“have to do…”)— untitled (“the build-up…”)— untitled (“Its not enough, I think it should be….”)— untitled (“Where does it come from…”)—untitled (“firelight breathing eyes orange…”)—untitled (“ok I get a sense of it now…”)— untitled (“as he leaves her…”)—untitled (“sounds of o and ree…”)—untitled (“mmmmmmmmm…”)—COMING THRU—untitled (“so whatever is left over…”)

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