Whetstone

National-award-winning poet Lorna Crozier's new collection of poems are peopled by the seasons and their elements, her beloved prairies, sorrow, joy, and the dead. Central to their themes are revisitations of family and marriage, and the land-death that is drought. Universal, deeply moving, crowded with breathtaking imagery, these are darkly resonant poems of middle age: alert to the beauty in loss, cherishing the humanity that is whetted on that stone. This is Lorna Crozier, one of Canada's most highly celebrated poets, at the top of her form.

Lorna Crozier’s work has won numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Poetry Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award, and the First Prize for Poetry in the CBC Literary Competition. She has published fourteen books of poetry, most recently, Whetstone. Crozier also edited Desire in Seven Voices and, with Patrick Lane, Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast. Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, she now lives in British Columbia, where she teaches at the University of Victoria.

Autobiography: Birth	p. 1
This Sky Demands a Certain Patience	p. 2
Beauty	p. 3
Sand from the Gobi Desert	p. 4
Calm	p. 5
When My Father Lived on Earth	p. 6
Leaving Home	p. 7
Something Else	p. 8
Winter Birches	p. 10
Prayers of Snow	p. 11
The Simplest of Movements	p. 12
Whetstone	p. 13
Three Movements for the Wind	p. 14
What Comes After	p. 15
Drought	p. 16
The Light in My Mother's Kitchen	p. 17
To See Clearly	p. 18
Ice-Fog	p. 19
Drought	p. 20
Form	p. 21
Shadow	p. 22
The Silence of Creation	p. 23
The Physics of the Rose	p. 24
Lazarus	p. 25
It Is Night	p. 26
Anonymity	p. 27
Rapture	p. 28
Brushes Made from Animal Hair	p. 30
Four Cows in Moonlight	p. 31
Melanoma	p. 32
Letter Home: Too Much, Too Little	p. 33
Poem for a Hard Time	p. 34
What Refuses Form	p. 35
Setting	p. 37
Solitude	p. 38
Past the Middle of My Life	p. 39
Rebuttal to the Higher Power	p. 40
Drought	p. 42
Hoping to Fix Up, a Little, This World	p. 43
Drinking in Moonlight	p. 44
Tu Fu Warns Li Po When Li Po Departs after a Night of Carousing	p. 46
What Can't Be Seen	p. 47
At Anny's Stable	p. 48
Winter Day	p. 49
Leaving the Garden	p. 50
Family Custom	p. 51
Divining	p. 53
All Things Passing	p. 54
Counting the Magpie	p. 55
Summer Small Talk	p. 56
Late July	p. 58
The Weight of August	p. 59
No Music in It	p. 60
Birthday with My Mother	p. 61
Measure	p. 63
Below Zero	p. 64
Late August Threnody	p. 65
Wind/Mind	p. 66
Small Gesture	p. 67
Blizzard	p. 68
The End of the Century	p. 69
Acknowledgements	p. 71
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