It takes the average reader 1 hour and 36 minutes to read Crawlspace by John Pass
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
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.
Crawlspace by John Pass is 95 pages long, and a total of 24,225 words.
This makes it 32% the length of the average book. It also has 30% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 12 minutes to read Crawlspace aloud.
Crawlspace is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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