Author: John Pass. Published by Oolichan Books, Lantzville, BC., 2000. 1st Edition Paperback. Flat Signed by the Author on title page. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with lovely fold-out flaps and original cover label for: "Governor General's Literary Awards Nominee."
WATER STAIR is the third in a linked quartet of books by John Pass, pulling the personal into focus through our culture's largest lenses.
Classical, Christian, Romantic, Contemporary and Existential...the poems in this book are river journeys (expansionist, native, disillusioned, visionary) that explore confluences and collisions of romance and landscape.
ABOUT THE POET: John Pass (born 1947 in Sheffield, England, and is a Canadian poet. He has lived in Canada since 1953, and was educated at the University of British Columbia. He has published 21 books of poetry since 1971. His book 'Stumbling in the Bloom', won the 2006 Governor General Award for English poetry. His most recent book "crawlspace" (Harbour Publishing, 2011) won the Dorothy Livesay Prize (BC Best Book Award in Poetry) in 2012. Pass taught English at Capilano University from 1975 to 2007. He lives on BC's Sunshine Coast near Sakinaw Lake with his wife, poet, essayist and novelist Theresa Kishkan. Four of his books of poetry form a linked quartet under the overall title, "At Large". -From Wikipedia.org
