{"product_id":"god-of-shadows-isbn-9780771073137","title":"God of Shadows","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe celebrated poet hailed by Ursula K. Le Guin as a \"storyteller, truth-teller, and visionary\" gives us a mesmerizing new collection of poems that are funny, wise, moving, and surprising.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow many gods can dance on the head of Lorna Crozier's pen? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poet Lorna Crozier has always been brilliant at fusing the ordinary with the other-worldly in strange and surprising ways. Now the Governor General's Literary Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eInventing the Hawk\u003c\/i\u003e returns with \u003ci\u003eGod of Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e, a wryly wise book that offers a polytheistic gallery of the gods we never knew existed and didn't know we needed. To read these poems is to be ready to offer your own prayers to the god of shadows, the god of quirks, and the god of vacant houses. Sing new votive hymns to the gods of horses, birds, cats, rats, and insects. And give thanks at the altars of the gods of doubt, guilt, and forgetting. What life-affirming questions have these deities come to ask? Perhaps it is simply this: How can poems be at once so profound, original and lively, and also so much fun?\u003cb\u003eRAYMOND SOUSTER AWARD LONGLIST\u003cbr\u003eCITY OF VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGod of Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e is sure to please the god of books.” —\u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lorna Crozier provides us with an extraordinary, spirit-saturated world in this book. It’s all worked out within a teasing intimacy with things that is full of sly praising. Cats, balconies, things without merit, the state of astonishment—she knows them and they look back at her. She grasps their beauty, fidelity, and genius. There is such fun here, such compassion and sorrow. How much we owe to Crozier’s wit and probing gaze.” —Tim Lilburn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “All good poets notice things. But Crozier cares—she cares personally—about what she notices; and her special gift is her sense for the caring that arises in other things. Recklessly exuberant, acute and pensive by turns, these new poems exhibit Crozier’s signature interest in the world’s odd-angled and gawky glory. How it shines in the cloudless, wide gaze of her heart.” —Jan ZwickyLORNA CROZIER is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eThrough the Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction and a \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e 100 Best Book. She has published eighteen books of poetry, including\u003ci\u003e God 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\u003ci\u003e The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things \u003c\/i\u003eand 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\u003e Inventing the Hawk \u003c\/i\u003eand three additional collections were finalists for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. She has received many awards and honours including the Canadian Authors Association Award, three Pat Lowther Memorial Awards, and the BC Lieutenant Governor's 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.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304282771685,"sku":"NP9780771073137","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771073137.jpg?v=1767728248","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/god-of-shadows-isbn-9780771073137","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}