 [ Large Image ] | Disarmament John Terpstra 2003 / Poetry / $18.95 9781894031738 / Trade paper / 104 pp John Terpstra’s Disarmament is a new collection of poems from one of Canada’s great literary craftsmen. Ranging over difficult terrain, from Port-au-Prince to the Iroquois Bar, Terpstra is always able—through keen observation and playful, thoughtful use of language—to locate the moral centre. Terpstra’s poems open and close distances—between the present and the past, parent and child, one country and another, the old world and the new, teacher and student, presence and absence, the human and the divine. Finalist for the 2004 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart Review: “John Terpstra’s meditations have the soundness and snug fit of consummate carpentry... with the toughness of maple, the compassion of cedar.” Don McKay “John Terpstra’s Disarmament is a marvellous and moving collection of poem cycles assembled from a decade of work...his dominant speaking voice is a fully developed and historicized personality, one who has been to places, actual places, has thought about them and likes to share what he thinks.” Jeffery Donaldson, Books in Canada | Other Books by this Author |  | Call Me Home John Terpstra 2021 / Canadian Poetry / $21.95 CAN 9781554472260 / Trade paper / 108 pp |  | Mischief John Terpstra 2017 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554471676 / Trade paper / 80 pp |  | The House with the Parapet Wall John Terpstra 2014 / Memoirs / $24.95 CAN 9781554471393 / Trade paper / 160 pp |  | Brilliant Falls John Terpstra 2013 / Poetry / $17.95 CAN 9781554471232 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Falling Into Place John Terpstra 2011 / Nature / $24.95 CAN 9781554471102 / Trade paper / 240 pp |  | Skin Boat: Acts of faith and other navigations John Terpstra 2009 / Memoir / $25.95 CAN 9781554470792 / Trade paper / 160 pp |  | Two or Three Guitars: Selected Poems John Terpstra 2006 / Poetry / $49.95 CAN 9781554470273 / Fine / 144 pp |  | Two or Three Guitars: Selected Poems John Terpstra 2006 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554470266 / Trade paper / 144 pp |  | Brendan Luck John Terpstra 2005 / Poetry / $4.95 CAN 9781554470136 / Pamphlet / 24 pp |  | The Boys, or, Waiting for the Electrician’s Daughter John Terpstra 2005 / Biography / Memoirs / $25.95 CAN 9781554470112 / Trade paper / 144 pp |  | Falling Into Place John Terpstra 2002 / Nature / $25.95 CAN 9781894031608 / Trade paper / 320 pp |  | Restoration John Terpstra 2000 / Poetry / $2.95 CAN 9781894031325 / Pamphlet / 16 pp |
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