May 2011 | 4.25 x 5.5 | 24 pp | 978-1-926655-26-0
| $12.00
Self
Storage
A Poetry Chapbook by John Pass
An elegy for the
enlightened materialism of objectivist modernists
such as W.C. Williams and George Oppen, lamenting the missed
chance of a “plausible religion,” Self Storage recalls
us to the
urgent adjacency of our physical world, to the telling particulars
and contingencies of our lives as individuals.
John Pass’s
most recent book, Stumbling In The Bloom
(Oolichan Books, 2005) won the Governor General’s Award
for poetry in 2006.
Visit: www.harbourpublishing.com/author/JohnPass
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. . . Everything fits in
the stall
or the climatized container. The boat
out of the wind, Dad’s guns leaning.
Mum’s sideboard. My generation’s
sidebar: all we won’t let go of
or what won’t go into the basement
or there is no basement to the condo.
No Freudian crawlspace, Perls in the attic.
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© John
Pass, 2011
Cover Image: detail from Giotto’s The
Last Judgement,
the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua.
