"Here there's a sense of testing, of vigilant unease, that sharpens the work. Pass's poems draw you past their opalescent linguistic surfaces to a passion that's variously joyous, musing, or gruff." -"Books in Canada"
"Here there's a sense of testing, of vigilant unease, that sharpens the work. Pass's poems draw you past their opalescent linguistic surfaces to a passion that's variously joyous, musing, or gruff." -"Books in Canada"
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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Contents The deepest voice, the surest - 11 as if from outside utterly 12 past dark and a desert empty 13 of everything doubt portended, all 14 loveliness but its timbre lost 15 of the forest we'd imagined 16 spoke singly with authority 18 along a line of prophecy, hope 19 of old men, whose voice it was 20 whose lineage it was, lost 21 even to women, half 23 their tribe, retreat and retraction 25 of the human to the last word 27 of the least and loneliest-father 28 done with begetting, done 29 with all but the power 31 of the pregnant ether, refuge 32 Of a world once various and fluid 33 lived-in nectar, absorbed 34 by God, whose character is voice 36 and ghostly possibility (threat 37 and promise) of rejuvenation 39 in a son born 41 but not begotten, dead 43 and risen, celibate 45 and ageless in a void of pain 46 made the only world to be sure of 47 Scrape a shadow play, romance 49 of the pure 51 The Sealed Room or desperate heart. 53 Lost in the Material 55 For Example, It's Not You Driving 57 Coda 60 A Small Blue Banknote 61 Terminal Velocity 62 Radical Innocence 64 Reprieve for the Body
Contents The deepest voice, the surest - 11 as if from outside utterly 12 past dark and a desert empty 13 of everything doubt portended, all 14 loveliness but its timbre lost 15 of the forest we'd imagined 16 spoke singly with authority 18 along a line of prophecy, hope 19 of old men, whose voice it was 20 whose lineage it was, lost 21 even to women, half 23 their tribe, retreat and retraction 25 of the human to the last word 27 of the least and loneliest-father 28 done with begetting, done 29 with all but the power 31 of the pregnant ether, refuge 32 Of a world once various and fluid 33 lived-in nectar, absorbed 34 by God, whose character is voice 36 and ghostly possibility (threat 37 and promise) of rejuvenation 39 in a son born 41 but not begotten, dead 43 and risen, celibate 45 and ageless in a void of pain 46 made the only world to be sure of 47 Scrape a shadow play, romance 49 of the pure 51 The Sealed Room or desperate heart. 53 Lost in the Material 55 For Example, It's Not You Driving 57 Coda 60 A Small Blue Banknote 61 Terminal Velocity 62 Radical Innocence 64 Reprieve for the Body
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