Pacific Rim Letters is a never&#45before&#45seen collection of letters Roy Kiyooka wrote between 1975 and 1985&#46 It presents a fascinating and highly valuable picture of the artistic and literary communities Kiyooka was actively involved with&#44 as well as Kiyooka as a man with an extraordinary intellect and passion for life and the arts&#46 Kiyooka takes the epistolary form into new and radical directions&#46 At once tenderly estranged and confessional&#44 attentive as much to the minutiae of daily life as to the complexities of artistic and literary creation&#44 and embedded in the politics of culture&#45making and those of racialized identities&#44 these letters are a literary achievement in their own right&#46