A Saving Grace: The Collected Poems of Mrs. Bentley - Hardcover

Crozier, Lorna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771024800 ISBN 13: 9780771024801

Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1996

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Sinclair Ross’s As For Me and My House has not only influenced two generations of Canadian writers, including Margaret Laurence, but it has also given us one of the most controversial figures in Canadian writing. Now, more than 50 years after Mrs. Bentley’s creation, Lorna Crozier returns to this challenging character, and in the unique voice of Mrs. Bentley writes a series of poems set in the mythical Saskatchewan town of Horizon during the Dirty Thirties. Through this powerfully imagined character, Crozier explores being a woman in that time of loneliness, struggle, and drought.

A Saving Grace comes from the heart of that country – the place that has shaped Lorna Crozier. A sequence of evocative poems, it tries to come to terms with the emotional and spiritual qualities of southwest Saskatchewan’s grassland prairie, providing intense meditations about the landscape and the presiding spirits of wind, dust, coyotes, foxes, and sky.

A Saving Grace is a unique contribution to Canadian literature and a special treat for admirers of Lorna Crozier’s poetry, as well as for readers of Sinclair Ross’s beloved novel. By expanding on the viewpoint of this Canadian classic, Crozier has fashioned an alternate but complementary story out of the old, and presented readers with yet newer mysteries to contemplate.

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<b>Lorna Crozier</b>’s work has garnered numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Poetry Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award, and the First Prize for Poetry in the CBC Literary Competition. She has published twelve books of poetry, including <i>The Garden Going On Without Us</i>;<i> Inventing the Hawk</i>;<i> Everything Arrives at the Light</i>; <i>A Saving Grace: The Collected Poems of Mrs. Bentley</i>,<i> </i>a collection inspired by Sinclair Ross’s beloved classic <i>As for Me and My House</i>; <i>What the Living Won’t Let Go</i>, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; and, most recently,<i> Apocrypha of Light</i>. Crozier also edited <i>Desire in Seven Voices</i> and, with Patrick Lane, <i>Ad

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• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0771024800
• ISBN 13: 9780771024801
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 98
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