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| Title: | Before the First Word
: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier |
| Series: | (Laurier Poetry, Volume 1) |
| Author: | Catherine Hunter (ed) |
| ISBN: | 0889204896 : 9780889204898 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 62 |
| Weight: | .13 Kg. |
| Published: | Wilfrid Laurier University Press - September 2005 |
| List Price: | 9.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Works by individual poets: from c1900- |
Lorna Crozier's radical imagination, and the finely tuned emotional intelligence that is revealed in the clarity of her poetry, have made her one of Canada's most popular poets. This is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected and introduced by Catherine Hunter, and includes an afterword by Crozier herself. Representing her work from 1985 to 2002, the collection reveals the wide range of Lorna Crozier's voice in its most lyrical, contemplative, ironic, and witty moments. Hunter's introduction discusses the poet's major themes, with particular attention to her feminist approach to biblical myth and her fascination with absence and silence as sites for imaginative revision. Crozier's afterword, "See How Many Ends This Stick Has: A Reflection on Poetry", is a lyrical meditation that provides an inspirational glimpse into the philosophy of a writer who prizes the intensity of awareness that poetry demands, and is tantalised by what predates speaking and all that cant be named. An engaging volume that will appeal to undergraduate students as well as general readers of poetry.
