Stumbling in the Bloom

By John Pass and Cleo Qian

Winner - Governor General's Award (2006)

The poems in Stumbling in the Bloom engage the ever-present enticements and entanglements of beauty on life's, and art's, home ground - in wilderness and garden. But this surprising volume, the finale of John Pass's quartet of poetry books, At Large, takes intriguing side trips on the home-stretch, including a wry excursion to the chiropractor, a fanciful flight from a student driver's parallel parking practice, up an "Everest" in Alberta, and on a singularly moving Canadian journey towards and away from the "ground zero" of the 9/11 tragedy. The book, and Pass's aesthetic, come to rest finally on a fulcrum, a paradox, of acceptance: the embrace of uncertainty and unhappy accident that purpose and effort alone make possible.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889822018
• ISBN13: 9780889822016
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Oolichan Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 8.4"