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Subject(s)

• Canadian essays [Browse]
• Canadian literature [Browse]

Summary note

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

Notes

Poems.

Language note

English

Contents

• Contents; A; Air; Apple; B; Bed; Bicycle; Bobby Pins ; Book; Bowl; Brain; But; Button; C; Ceiling; Chair; Chin; Clothes Hanger; Coffee Pot; Starts with the Letter K; Collar; Crowbar; D; Darkness, Its Origin; Dictionary; Doorknob; E; Eggs; Eraser; Feet; F; Flashlight; Fork; Fridge; G; Glossography of G; Gum; H; Hands; Happiness; Hat; Heart; Hinge; I; Ice; Ironing Board; J; Jell-O; K; Kitchen Sink ; Knife; L; Lamp; Light Bulb; Linoleum; Lobe; M; Measure; The Midnight News; Mirror; Moon; Mop; Mouth; N; Navel; Needle; No; Nose; Nose: A Story; O; Objects ; P; Plate; Q; Quicksilver; R; Radiator
• RakeS; Scissors; Screw; Shakers; Shoe; Shovel; Sky; Snail; Snow; Spoons; Stone; Stool; Stove; T; Table; Toaster; Tooth; Towel; U; Umbrella ; V; Vacuum; Vagina; W; Warts; Washing Machine-New, Front-Loading; Water; Wheelbarrow; X; Y; Yo-Yo; Z; Zipper; Notes; Acknowledgements

ISBN

1-926812-76-X

OCLC

• 870244007
• 808199783

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