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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: carpentry of words & wood
  title info:
    title: Carpentry of words and wood
  name:
    name part: Terpstra, John
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nsc
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 22 cm
  abstract: "'I have to put out of my mind what is happening to the trees of the forest in order to do what I do', writes John Terpstra at the opening of this memoir, because his lifelong creative pursuits of carpentry, furniture building and writing books--occupations consumptive of lumber and paper--necessitate a certain amount of sylvan destruction. With his episodic prose style and dogged curiosity, Terpstra considers the many facets of his complex relationship with trees and timber, all while recounting the story of his evolution as a craftsperson. In weighing the similarities and differences between carpentry and creative writing and the bittersweetness of his transition into retirement, Terpstra discovers that the trees have a canopy of lessons to teach us about being" --
  note: John Terpstra.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Terpstra, John
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Terpstra, John
  subject:
    topic: Poets, Canadian
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Cabinetmakers
    geographic: Canada
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
  subject:
    topic: Carpentry
  subject:
    topic: Poets, Canadian (English)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Poètes canadiens-anglais
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Ébénistes
    geographic: Canada
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Art d'écrire
  subject:
    topic: Charpenterie
  subject:
    topic: authorship
  subject:
    topic: carpentry (process)
  classification: PR9199.3.T434 Z46 2025
  classification: 811/.54
  classification: cci1icc
  identifier: 9781554472703
  identifier: 1554472709
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 241224
    record change date: 20260131174821.6
    record identifier: in00005678188
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng