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Paperback. Pub Date: September. 1996 Pages: 144 Publisher: Mariner Books These beautifully crafted poems - by turns dark. Playful. Intensely Moving Tender and intimate - make up Margaret Atwood's MOST Accomplished and Versatile Gathering to date Setting foot on the middle ground between body and word. Some draw on history. some on myth. both classical and popular. Others. more personal. concern themselves with love. with the fragility of the natural world. and with death. especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous. searing. compassionate. and disturbing. this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday. between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.
Paperback. Pub Date: September. 1996 Pages: 144 Publisher: Mariner Books These beautifully crafted poems - by turns dark. Playful. Intensely Moving Tender and intimate - make up Margaret Atwood's MOST Accomplished and Versatile Gathering to date Setting foot on the middle ground between body and word. Some draw on history. some on myth. both classical and popular. Others. more personal. concern themselves with love. with the fragility of the natural world. and with death. especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous. searing. compassionate. and disturbing. this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday. between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her...
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