Like the people and animals in her new collection, Lorna Crozier "defies / the anecdotal, / goes for the lyric, / music made from / bone and muscle and the grace notes" of life. The poems in The Wrong Cat are vintage Crozier: sly, sexy, irreverent, and sad, and populated by fully realized characters whose stories take place in a small lyrical space. We learn about a mother's last breath, the first dog in heaven, a man's fear that his wife no longer...
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