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Sinclair Rosss As For Me and My House has not only influenced two generations of Canadian writers, including Margaret Laurence, but it has also given us one of the most controversial figures in Canadian writing. Now, more than 50 years after Mrs. Bentleys creation, Lorna Crozier returns to this challenging character, and in the unique voice of Mrs. Bentley writes a series of poems set in the mythical Saskatchewan town of Horizon during the Dirty Thirties. Through this powerfully imagined character, Crozier explores being a woman in that time of loneliness, struggle, and drought. A Saving Grace comes from the heart of that country the place that has shaped Lorna Crozier. A sequence of evocative poems, it tries to come to terms with the emotional and spiritual qualities of southwest Saskatchewans grassland prairie, providing intense meditations about the landscape and the presiding spirits of wind, dust, coyotes, foxes, and sky. A Saving Grace is a unique contribution to Canadian literature and a special treat for admirers of Lorna Croziers poetry, as well as for readers of Sinclair Rosss beloved novel. By expanding on the viewpoint of this Canadian classic, Crozier has fashioned an

Author

Lorna Crozier

Publisher

McClelland and Stewart

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780771024801

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities