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Ordinary
Days
CORNELIA C. HORNOSTY
The finely crafted
poems of Cornelia Hornosty’s Ordinary Days celebrate
the cotidian with the deceptive informality of Auden’s Musee
des Beaux Arts. Anything but ordinary, Hornosty's latest volume
documents a personal journey of growth, love and loss with the
wry detachment of a silent witness carefully noting atmosphere,
nuance and gesture. Events, people and scenes described from the
outside reveal their essence through language that is casual and
precise against the relentless rhythm of successive moments. Conversational
yet strangely classical, the poems of Ordinary Days lull
the reader into tranquil awareness only disturbed by an unexpected
intensity, reverberating with a lasting echo.
Cornelia Hornosty (nee
DeYoung) has a BA in French Literature from Oberlin College, Ohio,
with studies in Grenoble, France, and an MA in French Literature
from McMaster University. She lived in Ontario for 28 years and
has been living in Victoria,BC, for the past eight years. She
has published poems and fiction in a number of Canadian literary
magazines, including Canadian Literature, Canadian Forum,
Queen’s Quarterly, Malahat Review, New Quarterly, Grain,
Pottersfield Portfolio, and Dalhousie Review. Three
previous collections were published by Borealis Press in Ottawa:
Voice with Flowers (1991), Under the Beaks of Millions
(1993), and The Inner Romaine of Our Lives (2000).
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