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The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things

The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things

Lorna Crozier
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In The Book of Marvels, award-winning poet Lorna Crozier offers a delightful series of prose meditations on household objects: everything from doorknobs, washing machines, rakes, and zippers to the kitchen sink. Operating as a kind of a literary detective, Crozier brings her rapt attention to the everyday things she explores, uncovering the mystery that lies at their essence. She offers tantalizing glimpses of the household's inhabitants, too, probing hearts, brains, noses, and navels. Longing, exuberance, and grief colour her reflections on the familiar and the concrete, causing them at times to resemble folktales or parables.

Each of the vignettes in The Book of Marvels stands alone, but the connections are intricate; as in life, each object gains meaning from its juxtaposition with others. Crozier approaches her investigations with a childlike curiosity, an adult bemusement, and an unfailing sense of metaphor and mischief. With both charm and mordant wit, she...

年:
2012
出版社:
Greystone Books
语言:
english
ISBN 10:
192681276X
ISBN 13:
9781926812762
文件:
EPUB, 1.04 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2012
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