Sachiko Murakami approaches the urban center through its inhabitants' greatest passion: real estate. Rebuild engraves itself on the absence of Vancouver's center, with its cranes, excavation sites, and bulldozed public spaces. Its poems crumble as the page turns, words flaking from the line like rain-damaged stucco off a leaky condominium, exposing the absence life inside the "stanza" of a despised "Vancouver Special."
Sachiko Murakami's first collection of poetry The Invisibility Exhibit (Talonbooks 2008) was a finalist for the Governor General's Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She is a past member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective.