Selected poems, 1965-1975 / Margaret Atwood.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1987], ©1976.Description: 240 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0395404223
- 9780395404225
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 811.54 A887 | Available | 33111011322092 |
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Gathered from Margaret Atwood's work over the decade of 1965-1975, Selected Poems 1 is a lasting collection from one of our most celebrated contemporary writers.
Margaret Atwood's early poetry garnered widespread critical recognition and helped establish her reputation as one of the most provocative modern literary talents. Selected Poems 1 draws from six volumes published early in Atwood's career: The Circle Game (1966), which received the Governor General's Award; The Animals in That Country (1968); Procedures for Underground (1970); The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970); Power Politics (1971); and You Are Happy (1974). In these early poems, Atwood considers the space between the cruelties of civilization and the wonders of nature, the dissonance of Canadian identity, and the line where beauty becomes sinister. With poems that are "glistening with terse, bright images, untentative, closing like a vise" (New York Times), this is an essential collection to be treasured for years to come.
From the circle game: This is a photograph of me -- After the flood, we -- City planners -- Eventual proteus -- Circle game -- Migration, C.P.R. -- Journey to the interior -- Some objects of wood and stone -- Pre-amphibian -- Against still life -- Place, fragments -- Explorers -- Settlers -- From The animals in that country: The animals in that country -- Foundling -- Landlady -- Fortification -- At the tourist centre in Boston -- Elegy for the giant tortoises -- Roominghouse, winter -- It is dangerous to read newspapers -- Progressive insanities of a pioneer -- Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein -- Backdrop addresses cowboy -- I was reading a scientific article -- More and more -- Voice -- Reincarnation of Captain Cook -- Axiom -- I am sitting -- I see you -- What is it -- You are the sun -- Hesitations outside the door -- Lying here -- I look up -- I can't tell you -- They were all inaccurate -- From You are happy: Newsreel, man and firing squad -- November -- Digging -- Tricks with mirrors -- You are happy -- Songs of the transformed: Pig song -- Bull song -- Rat song -- Crow song -- Song of the worms -- Owl song -- Siren song -- Song of the fox -- Song of the hen's head -- Corpse song -- Circe/mud poems: Is/not -- Eating fire -- Four auguries -- Head against white -- There is only one of everything -- Late August -- Book of ancestors.
Poems deal with death, self-image, disasters, politics, children, evolution, history, the news, language, dreams, animals, and love.