Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir - Hardcover

Crozier, Lorna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1553653432 ISBN 13: 9781553653431

Publisher: Greystone Books, 2010

Synopsis

"A tender, unsparing portrait of a family. It is also a book about place. In this splendid volume of recollections, award-winning poet Lorna Crosier charts the geography that shaped her character and her understanding of the world."

About this title

About the Author:

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. She is also the author of the memoir Small Beneath the Sky and the editor of several anthologies. She lives in Saanich, British Columbia.

Review:

Lorna Crozier has written a memoir that is not so much brilliant (although brilliant it is), as profoundly felt, rich with metaphor and lyrical language, pure in its generosity. I found it deeply touching. —Sharon Butala

(2009-05-18)

This intimate and moving memoir is filled with a kind of clear prairie light, and reveals all that dwells in the shadows as well as everything that shines. —Jane Urquhart

(2009-05-20)

Lorna Crozier has woven the delicate threads of a particular place, time and family into a powerful, big-hearted, poignant, funny, wise and utterly arresting memoir. —Guy Vanderhaeghe

(2009-05-22)

How rare such honesty is, and how hard-won, and radical, and beautiful. —Ursula LeGuin

(2009-07-13)

Crozier's prose illuminates our world. She is a writer of the first rank. —David Adams Richards

(2009-07-13)

Crozier's character sketches are solid but it's her poet's eye that rewards an attentive reader. —Toronto Star

(2009-08-09)

For the thousands in this valley, like me, who still have prairie dirt under your fingernails and between your toes after decades away, there is a book you're going to want to have . . . Lorna Crozier's new memoir . . . is a book of home . . . if home to you was in your mother's or grandmother's Saskatchewan kitchen, or vegetable garden, that is exactly where it will take you. You will be flung there, breathless, suddenly smelling hot roll kuken and watermelon. Fresh bread and Saskatoon berry jam. Chokecherry syrup. Hot, salty, fat as cracklings spit and hiss on the stove. Today, I am overcome with missing a place I don't want to be. —Kelowna Daily Courier

(2009-08-14)

Lorna Crozier's poetic gift gives her prose a wonderful edge and clarity. —Winnipeg Free Press

(2009-08-15)

Small Beneath the Sky begins with light. Which is so appropriate to this landscape it would seem a shame to begin anywhere else. Light, not dust, humour, not misery, infuse this memoir. Like the Prairies, a thing worth returning to. —Globe & Mail

(2009-08-22)

Small Beneath the Sky is a slender book, not quite 200 pages long, but it packs a punch. It is about the birthplace that you claim as your own, about your starting point, the way you understand yourself, the place you return where there's nowhere else to go.' It is also about telling a personal story finely, without blinking. The book is in the end not just about Lorna Crozier, but about you and me and everyone else who ever lived their lives in small towns like Swift Current or Owen Sound. —Sun Times

(2009-08-26)

About this edition

• Publisher: Greystone Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1553653432
• ISBN 13: 9781553653431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224