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    The Crow Who Tampered With Time
    The Crow Who Tampered With Time
    The Crow Who Tampered With Time
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    The Crow Who Tampered With Time

    By Lloyd Ratzlaff

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    "Wonderland is everywhere, and we refuse to be small."

    In this collection of essays, Lloyd Ratzlaff brings the prairie landscape to life through a capacious imagination charged with wonder and the gentle irony of an awareness tempered by time and love. Ratzlaff connects with the challenges posed by skepticism and belief, countering both the cynicism and doctrinairism of contemporary life with a renewed praise of the profound depths of the spirit and the natural world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReprise
    Release dateDec 6, 2022
    ISBN9781989398524
    The Crow Who Tampered With Time
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    Lloyd Ratzlaff

    Lloyd Ratzlaff is the author of the literary nonfiction titles The Crow Who Tampered With Time, Backwater Mystic Blues, and Bindy's Moon. His essays are also featured in several anthologies, including Sons and Mothers: Stories From Mennonite Men; Reading the River: A Traveller's Companion to the North Saskatchewan River; and apart: a year of pandemic poetry and prose. A former minister, counsellor, and lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan, he has taught writing classes for READ Saskatoon, the Western Development Museum, and the University of Saskatchewan Certificate of Art and Design. He was a columnist for Prairie Messenger Catholic Journal through its last nineteen years of publication. He lives in Saskatoon.

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