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Crawlspace

by John Pass
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781550175196
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Harbour Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Harbour Publishing
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  • Pages: 80
  • Original Price: USD 18.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 155 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Canadian

The poems in crawlspace, John Pass's first volume of poetry since he won the Governor General's Literary Award in 2006, work within the narrowing passages imposed upon us by the inevitable strictures and limitations of living and experience: aging, love and loss, tightening or unraveling family ties. Close to home as always, in one instance literally under the house he has built, Pass's work is grounded too in the wider world. Travelling from urban Toronto's Bloor Street, ...a rough wind in the empty elms rolling/ into the streets the liberated beer cans to the bucolic ...golden light in the bunch grass and aspens of Pennask Lake in BC's Okanagan, to Sainte-Chapelle in Paris with Matisse in mind, he never loses sight of the roughly textured physical world where he has found poetry's footing for four decades:

What of the salt-leaching stone beneath
the fresco's lustrous skin, and the unconditioned air

outdoors, alive with showers and traffic splashing
where we an hour ago these
centuries later came in?


Pass's intelligent and compassionate vision encompasses
human frailty, memory, and our wondrous, fraught engagements
with (and within) nature. The long view's our forever/ human incongruity in landscape, on earth. A given, / the distance. And a gift, to stretch us--restless reaches along the road. crawlspace is a gift that expands the landscape and sensibility of Canadian literature even as it celebrates the intricacies of self.

Pass, John: - John Pass's poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland and the Czech Republic. He is the author of nineteen books and chapbooks, most notably the quartet AT LARGE, comprised of The Hour's Acropolis (Harbour, 1991), Radical Innocence (Harbour, 1994), Water Stair (Oolichan Books, 2000)--shortlisted for the Governor General's Award--and Stumbling in the Bloom (Oolichan Books, 2005)--winner of the Governor General's Award. His most recent collection, crawlspace, published by Harbour in 2011, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2012. He lives with his wife, writer Theresa Kishkan, near Sakinaw Lake on BC's Sunshine Coast.

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