"Crozier masterfully animates an array of wonders that can be found everywhere around us and inside of our souls." - Toronto Quarterly This book knows a great truth that nothing is known until it is held: in our hands, or our mind, or our heart." -Anne Michaels "Lorna Crozier takes great pleasure in the world and her pleasure becomes ours. Each page opens onto a new marvel." -Esi Edugyan "Lorna Crozier raises the objects of everyday life into things of alien beauty. She is also the author of the memoir Small Beneath the Sky and the editor of several anthologies. Lorna Crozier has received numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award, for her fifteen books of poetry, which include The Blue Hour of the Day, What the Living Won't Let Go, Everything Arrives at the Light, and Inventing the Hawk. With both charm and mordant wit, she animates the panoply of wonders to be found everywhere around us and inside us. Crozier approaches her investigations with a childlike curiosity, an adult bemusement, and an unfailing sense of metaphor and mischief. Longing, exuberance, and grief colour her reflections, which at times take on the tenor of folktales or parables.Įach of the short portraits in The Book of Marvels stands alone, but the connections are intricate as in life, each object gains meaning from its juxtaposition with others. She offers tantalizing glimpses of the household's inhabitants, too, probing hearts, brains, noses, and navels. Operating as a sort of literary detective, she examines the mystery of the everyday, seeking the essence of each object. If you enjoy these works and would like to help us add other public domain books to our collection, please consider volunteering to proof a few pages at our companion site, Distributed Proofreaders of Canada.In a series of playful and startling prose meditations, celebrated writer Lorna Crozier brings her rapt attention to the small matter of household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink. Mazo de la Roche’s Jalna books, along with a Whiteoaks play, are available here, while all her books that are available at Faded Page can be found here. Her final novel Morning at Jalna appeared in 1960 when she was 81. She ended up writing 16 Jalna novels covering a century in the life of a family called the Whiteoaks and their various generations in a fictional locale in Southern Ontario. Its subsequent publication in 1927 brought de la Roche fame and fortune at the age of 48. Her third novel, Jalna, was submitted to the American magazine Atlantic Monthly, winning a $10,000 award. They were mild successes but nevertheless earned her little in income or recognition. Her first two proper novels, Possession (soon to be in Faded Page) from 1923 and Delight from 1926, were romantic novels. Her first published book, Explorers of the Dawn, appeared in 1922, and was a fix-up of some previously published sketches, vignettes and stories rewritten. Some of the information conveyed below is from her autobiography, Ringing the Changes, and from Wikipedia.Īs an adult, de la Roche wrote various plays and short stories, and managed to sell some of them, like most writers starting off. Mazo de la Roche was born in Newmarket, Ontario, north of Toronto, on Januand died Jat the age of 82 in Toronto. Ringing the Changes, An Autobiography by Mazo de la Roche
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