Apochrypha of Light - Softcover

In her twelfth collection, Lorna Crozier offers us startlingly original and profoundly humane revisionings of familiar Biblical figures and events. Her purpose is anything but sectarian, though these are poems rooted in elemental truths of land, light, and the human heart. The compassion and psychological insight that have made her one of Canada’s most beloved poets are here in force, shot through with wit and intelligence, rendered in a lithe, tensile line. This is vintage Crozier: tales of beginning and of ending, sharp, sweet, heretical, and deeply true. The remarkable closing sequence, “Book of Praise,” was commissioned for broadcast by the CBC, and aired to public acclaim in the spring of 2000.

Lorna Crozier’s work has garnered 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 twelve books of poetry, including The Garden Going On Without Us; Inventing the Hawk; Everything Arrives at the Light; A Saving Grace: The Collected Poems of Mrs. Bentley, a collection inspired by Sinclair Ross’s beloved classic As for Me and My House; What the Living Won’t Let Go, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize; and, most recently, Apocrypha of Light. Crozier also edited Desire in Seven Voices and, with Patrick Lane, Ad