Lorna Crozier

The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things

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In a series of playful and startling prose meditations, celebrated writer Lorna Crozier brings her rapt attention to the small matter of household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink.Operating as a sort of literary detective, she examines the mystery of the everyday, seeking the essence of each object. She offers tantalizing glimpses of the household's inhabitants, too, probing hearts, brains, noses, and navels. Longing, exuberance, and grief color her reflections, which at times take on the tenor of folktales or parables. Each of the short portraits in The Book of Marvels stands alone,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-926812-75-5
EAN: 9781926812755
Produktnummer: 13461835
Verlag: Greystone
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 131 S.
Masse: H19.3 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.0 cm 249 g
Gewicht: 249

Über den Autor

Lorna Crozier, one of Canada's most celebrated poets, has read from her work on every continent. She has received numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award, for her fifteen books of poetry, which include The Blue Hour of the Day, What the Living Won't Let Go, Everything Arrives at the Light and Inventing the Hawk, and her memoir, Small beneath the Sky. She has also edited several anthologies, among them Desire in Seven Voices and, with Patrick Lane, Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast. She lives in Saanich, British Columbia.