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John Terpstra has published seven books of poetry, including the CG-nominated Disarmament (2003) and the Bressani Award-winning Forty Days & Forty Nights (1987). He is also an acclaimed prose author. Falling Into Place (2002) is his creative investigation of the Iroquois Bar, the geological formation that supports one of Canada's busiest transportation corridors. Most recently he published The Boys, Or, Waiting For the Electrician's Daughter (2005), honouring the lives of the wife's three brothers, each of whom lived with muscular dystrophy until their early twenties. The Book was shortlisted for the Charles Taylor Prize and the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. John Terpstra lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where he works as a writer and cabinetmaker. For more about John see http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/terpstra/index.htm |