Passing pointers/references to structs into functions

This is going to sound like a silly question, but I'm still learning C, so please bear with me. :)

I'm working on chapter 6 of K&R (structs), and thus far through the book have seen great success. I decided to work with structs pretty heavily, and therefore did a lot of work early in the chapter with the point and rect examples. One of the things I wanted to try was changing the canonrect function (2nd Edition, p 131) work via pointers, and hence return void.

I have this working, but ran into a hiccup I was hoping you guys could help me out with. I wanted canonRect to create a temporary rectangle object, perform its changes, then reassign the pointer it's passed to the temporary rectangle, thus simplifying the code.

However, if I do that, the rect doesn't change. Instead, I find myself manually repopulating the fields of the rect I'm passed in, which does work.

The code follows:

#include <stdio.h>

#define min(a, b) ((a) < (b) ? (a) : (b))
#define max(a, b) ((a) > (b) ? (a) : (b))

struct point {
    int x;
    int y;
};

struct rect {
    struct point lowerLeft;
    struct point upperRight;
};

// canonicalize coordinates of rectangle
void canonRect(struct rect *r);

int main(void) {
    struct point p1, p2;
    struct rect r;

    p1.x = 10;
    p1.y = 10;
    p2.x = 20;
    p2.y = 40;
    r.lowerLeft = p2; // note that I'm inverting my points intentionally
    r.upperRight = p1;

    printf("Rectangle, lower left: %d, %d; upper right: %d %d\n\n", 
        r.lowerLeft.x, r.lowerLeft.y, r.upperRight.x, r.upperRight.y);

    // can't pass a pointer, only a reference. 
    // (Passing pointers results in illegal indirection compile time errors)
    canonRect(&r); 
    printf("Rectangle, lower left: %d, %d; upper right: %d %d\n\n", 
        r.lowerLeft.x, r.lowerLeft.y, r.upperRight.x, r.upperRight.y);    
}

void canonRect(struct rect *r) {
    struct rect t