From its inception in 2005, the Victoria, B.C.-based Pacific Rim Review of Books has cast a close, constructive eye on contemporary literature. With this anthology, PRRB now confirms its place in contemporary Canadian arts & letters. Addressing a broad horizon of topics and issues in engaged East-West culture, serious poetry, international relations, history, and ecological inquiry, contributors include such distinguished writers as Gary Snyder, Josef Skvorecky, Red Pine, Rex Weyler, Andrew Schelling, and Michael Platzer, as well as many of the veteran and talented young west coast writers whose work PRRB has consistently championed.