Enduring Dreams: An Exploration of Arctic Landscape

by John Moss

Enduring Dreams is a vital reflection on Canada's least known and most enigmatic region. Blending prose and poetry, Moss challenges our notions of landscape and wilderness, culture and perception, the limits of experience, and the nature of being.

196 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

John Moss writes mysteries because nothing brings life into focus like the murder of strangers. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2006 in recognition of his career as a professor of Canadian literature with over a score of books in his field, John moved progressively away from literary criticism to creative writing, before settling comfortably into the Quin and Morgan series which now occupies his writing efforts full time. He and his wife, Beverley Haun, whose book, Inventing ‘Easter Island’, grew out of her work as a cultural theorist and their travel adventures as scuba divers, share a stone farmhouse with numerous ghosts in Peterborough, Ontario. Recently sidelined from his diving avocation (he was an instructor in both PADI and SDI programs), John and Bev have no intention of giving up whitewater canoeing and cross-country skiing with old friends, or taking long hikes in interesting places around the world.

John is professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa.

Reviews

[Kauzar Ben · Rating 3 out of 5]

«When landscape and language converge in consciousness, sometimes it is necessary to express yourself in poetry; not because poetry has metaphysical potential unavailable to prose but simply because, in acknowledging its own presence on the page, the written poem more honestly admits the text as mediator between experience of the world and the world itself. The same could be said of oral poetry or song, that they shape the air.»