{"product_id":"the-blue-hour-of-the-day-isbn-9780771024689","title":"The Blue Hour of the Day","description":"Over the course of a career spanning three decades, Lorna Crozier has become one of Canada’s most beloved poets, receiving high acclaim and numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Poetry Award, and the Canadian Authors Association Award. Now, in this definitive selection of poems, which draws on her eight major collections and includes many of the poems for which she is justly celebrated, Crozier’s trademark investigations of family, spirituality, love’s fierce attachments, and bereavement and loss have been given a new framework. As a sapphire generates a blue light from within, \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Hour of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates Crozier’s dazzling capacity to bring depths to light, unfailingly and unflinchingly. It represents the best work of an icon of Canadian poetry.\"What a joy to have a volume of selected poems by this marvelous Canadian poet, storyteller,  truth-teller, visionary.\" \u003cbr\u003e —Ursula K Le Guin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “One of  the most original poets alive.” \u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eBooks in Canada\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.” \u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eToronto  Star\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“Lorna Crozier’s \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Hour of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e reads like one long autobiographical  poem of astonishing coherence and beauty, and so powerful that, after I’d closed  the book, I found that I’d unwittingly learnt several of the lines by heart.”\u003cbr\u003e—Alberto  Manguel, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the YearLORNA 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.\u003cb\u003eONIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe onion loves the onion.\u003cbr\u003eIt hugs its many layers,\u003cbr\u003esaying \u003ci\u003eO\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003eeach vowel smaller\u003cbr\u003ethan the last.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome say it has no heart.\u003cbr\u003eIt doesn’t need one.\u003cbr\u003eIt surrounds itself,\u003cbr\u003efeels whole. Primordial.\u003cbr\u003eFirst among vegetables.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf Eve had bitten it\u003cbr\u003einstead of the apple,\u003cbr\u003ehow different\u003cbr\u003eParadise.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302216847589,"sku":"NP9780771024689","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771024689.jpg?v=1767738422","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-blue-hour-of-the-day-isbn-9780771024689","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}