{"product_id":"the-wrong-cat-isbn-9780771023910","title":"The Wrong Cat","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike the people and animals in her new collection, Lorna Crozier “defies \/ the anecdotal, \/ goes for the lyric, \/ music made from \/ bone and muscle and the grace notes” of life. The poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Wrong Cat\u003c\/i\u003e are vintage Crozier: sly, sexy, irreverent, and sad, and populated by fully realized characters whose stories take place in a small lyrical space. We learn about a mother’s last breath, the first dog in heaven, a man’s fear that his wife no longer loves him, and the ways in which animals size up the humans around them and find them wanting. With Crozier’s celebrated mix of vibrant imagery, piercing observations, and deeply felt human emotions, these poems provide an affirmation in the midst of the fluid, often challenging nature of experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\"Breathtakingly down-to-earth and reassuringly lyrical, new poems by Lorna Crozier are always a reason for rejoicing.\" —\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003eLORNA 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":46301883728101,"sku":"NP9780771023910","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771023910.jpg?v=1767742344","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-wrong-cat-isbn-9780771023910","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}