{"id":14097,"date":"2017-05-23T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14097"},"modified":"2017-05-23T09:16:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T16:16:40","slug":"lorna-croziers-new-poetry-collection-captures-realities-of-aging-and-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/05\/23\/lorna-croziers-new-poetry-collection-captures-realities-of-aging-and-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorna Crozier\u2019s new poetry collection captures realities of aging and grief"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good poetry always makes me question the hardest elements of being alive. The difference between reading poetry and sitting through a hard counselling session is simple: the words are painted on the page in such a way that no matter how hard they make me cringe in an introspective, damn-I-wish-that-came-from-my-brain-first kind of way, I always want more of them.<\/p>\n

Local poet Lorna Crozier\u2019s new collection What the Soul Doesn\u2019t Want<\/em> is no exception to that wistful plethora of feelings. She does exactly what the title promises: captures the sensations around grief, loss, the effects of time, and the general disposability of humans (or, as she says in \u201cTime Studies,\u201d \u201cGod draws a life then rubs it out\/with the eraser on his pencil. It smears but does its job\u201d). She says this in a way that makes a thought that\u2019s dark and decaying yet freeing.<\/p>\n

The poems in Crozier\u2019s latest collection\u2014which is her 17th\u2014will ignite a selfless curiosity in the young parent, will bring about a second hunger for life in the aging retiree; they\u2019ll have some kind of impact on the reader, wherever they fall on that spectrum. Each and every word Crozier writes has a sharp, darkening edge to it, but in the shadows of those words lay empathy and understanding that will keep the loneliest of readers afloat in a literary cocoon late into the night.<\/p>\n

Some of the poems were, at first read, a tad too abstract, but even then, Crozier let her creativity prevail; I don\u2019t have to understand it all objectively because each poem is crafted in such a way that the reader will feel it was written solely for them, when they needed it.<\/p>\n

What the Soul Doesn\u2019t Want <\/em>book launch
\n7 pm Tuesday, May 30
\nFree, Munro\u2019s Books
\nmunrobooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good poetry always makes me question the hardest elements of being alive. The difference between reading poetry and sitting through a hard counselling session is simple: the words are painted on the page in such a way that no matter how hard they make me cringe in an introspective, damn-I-wish-that-came-from-my-brain-first kind of way, I always […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t