{"product_id":"after-that-isbn-9780771004285","title":"After That","description":"\u003cb\u003e2024 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry, Third Place Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Lorna Crozier, the poet that Ursula Le Guin called a “truth teller” and “visionary,” comes a collection of soul-stirring poems that follow the death of a loved one.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter That \u003c\/i\u003eis a book written from the dark hollow we fall into when we lose those we love. Lorna Crozier’s sure poetry finds the words to engage with the grief that comes from the death of her partner, the writer Patrick Lane, whom she’d lived with for forty years, many of them tumultuous. With grace and precision, she illuminates sorrow. The light the poems cast travels far enough to reach anyone who has experienced loss. These pages engage us with many familiar yet magical things—not only paper wasps, but their libraries; not only herons, but their role as aging monks. Crozier takes us through the domestic and natural worlds into the cagey and metaphysical place we call \u003ci\u003ethe beyond. \u003c\/i\u003eWithout offering false comfort, the poems turn over our own grief so that we can catch a glimpse of the new life inside us again.\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2024 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Lorna Crozier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Breathtakingly down-to-earth and reassuringly lyrical, new poems by Lorna Crozier are always a reason for rejoicing.\" —\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[She has the] ability to create poems in which almost impossibly delicate, sharply focused imagery evokes emotional vastness.\" —\u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Crozier's fans have come to expect graceful clarity, sly humour, a strong affinity for the animal world, and a subversive feminist tilt to the mirror she holds up to human affairs. She continues to provide these things . . .\" —\u003ci\u003eBooks in Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Crozier writes of a world of imperfection, clumsiness, violence, betrayal, pain, and in spite of everything, delight, and love. . . . Always accessible, Crozier speaks a language we understand, but she uses it to tell us of things we don't.\" —\u003ci\u003eCanadian Literature\u003c\/i\u003eLORNA CROZIER is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eThrough the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named a \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003eTop 100 Book and a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. She has published eighteen books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eGod of Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhat the Soul Doesn’t Want\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wrong Cat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmall Mechanics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhetstone\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eSmall Beneath the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Hubert Evans Award for Creative Nonfiction. She won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry for \u003ci\u003eInventing the Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e and three additional collections were finalists for this award. She has received the Canadian Authors Association Award, three Pat Lowther Memorial Awards, the Raymond Souster Award, and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She was awarded the BC Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria and an Officer of the Order of Canada, and she has received five honorary doctorates for her contributions to Canadian literature. Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, she now lives in British Columbia.NORTH OF WINTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe dictionary word of the day is ultima Thule,\u003cbr\u003ethe land beyond the northernmost region on the maps.\u003cbr\u003eIs that where you are now? Your poems loved winter.\u003cbr\u003eLike the Mad Trapper are you walking backwards,\u003cbr\u003ebone glasses over your eyes so you won’t go blind?\u003cbr\u003eYou were before you died, going blind I mean, the straight\u003cbr\u003elines on a grid wavering when you looked close.\u003cbr\u003eMacular degeneration, the doctor said, for which there is no cure.\u003cbr\u003eMay I say, now that my words cannot disturb you (we were so careful\u003cbr\u003enear the end), you were dying though I could not see it then.\u003cbr\u003e     In Saskatchewan\u003cbr\u003ewe drove through countless storms, your hands tight on the wheel,\u003cbr\u003esnakes of snow slithering across the road, erasing the yellow line,\u003cbr\u003ejoining lane and ditch. That was the start perhaps,\u003cbr\u003eyour eyes blizzarded. In this north of north where I can’t go,\u003cbr\u003eyour breath’s come back and hangs in ice-flecked clouds\u003cbr\u003eas you walk backwards into snow. Through narrow slits cut\u003cbr\u003einto bone, bone is all you see.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304920699109,"sku":"NP9780771004285","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771004285.jpg?v=1767721104","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/after-that-isbn-9780771004285","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}