Inventing the Hawk: Poems

Crozier, Lorna

ISBN 10: 0771024770 / ISBN 13: 9780771024771

Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, 1992

About this Item

Inscribed by Lorna Crozier to fellow Canadian poet Sandy Shreve on the title page; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; 140 pages.

Seller Inventory # 023963

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inventing the Hawk: Poems
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0771024770
• ISBN 13: 9780771024771
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

The poems in this haunting new book are both playful and provocative, witty and intimate. Central to the collection is a powerful elegy for her father. Beginning with his death, it moves back in time to the author's childhood in a small Saskatchewan community.

Inventing the Hawk reveals the small pleasures of day-to-day life, sometimes visited by “Angels” who offer a novel, often shocking perspective on reality. As well, Crozier translates love and the experience of loss into a language resonant with desire and longing. A language that speaks to the most private aspects of ourselves.

This is poetry that will change the way we look at our lives.

About the Author

Lorna Crozier’s work has won 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 fourteen books of poetry, most recently, Whetstone. Crozier also edited Desire in Seven Voices and, with Patrick Lane, Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast. Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, she now lives in British Columbia, where she teaches at the University of Victoria.