Synopses & Reviews
A radiant collection of new poems from one of Canada's most renowned and well-read poets. Brilliantly poised between the mythic and the everyday, the anecdotal and the delicately lyrical, these poems contain the wit, irreverence, and startling imagery for which Crozier is justly celebrated. They include the intimate and sometimes difficult conversations between husbands and wives, shadowed as they often are by faithlessness, compromise, and other betrayals; the ways in which crows, owls, and deers size up the humans around them and find them wanting ("More rapacious than us, more needy./They never take the shortest route/and use too many words when a caw would do."); memories of a past whose influences and ghosts are still felt in the present.
About the Author
LORNA CROZIER is the award-winning author of fifteen previous books of poetry, most recently Small Mechanics, The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems, Whetstone, and Apocrypha of Light. She is also the author of The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things and the memoir Small Beneath the Sky. She edited Desire in Seven Voices and, with Patrick Lane, Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast, Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets, and Breathing Fire 2. Born in Swift Current, she now lives in British Columbia. Visit www.lornacrozier.ca.