The Journals of Susanna Moodie: Poems
 Amazon.com Review: The poetic/artistic exploration of what it means to find yourself thrown into a hostile environment, these poems by Margaret Atwood and silk-screen illustrations by Charles Pachter are based on the journals of Canadian pioneer Susanna [... more]
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Morning in the Burned House (Edition 001)
Profound. Simple. Human.: This book is very aptly titled. The poems feel like waking up in a pile of cinders that used to be a house. Not sad really. Just sort of empty. As if everything has been reduced to stark facts with a few flowers sprouting here [... more]
$16.00
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Selected Poems: 1965-1975
A Beautiful Composition: I first became interested in Ms. Atwood after reading one of her poems from Power Politics in a college text book: you fit into me/ like a hook into an eye/ an open eye/ a fish hook.. Selected Poems, 1965-1975 was my first [... more]
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Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986 (Vol 2)
A Mixed Bag: I picked this book up randomly, being a fan of her novels but not familiar with her complete body of work. I find that her short stories are more satisfying and expressive than her poems, although one of my favorite poems of all time is in [... more]
$16.00
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Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
A useful way to look at Canadian literature: Atwood's Survival was a seminal book for me back in the 1970's. Her theory that there are national themes in literature is very useful for studying cultures generally. The rap on the book is that she has not [... more]
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Power Politics
still relevant, still potent: "you fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye" Twenty-five years after its first publication, Margaret Atwood's verses still retain their power -- her imagery still startles and disturbs; her [... more]
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Circle Game
Heartfelt: Every person can identify with some feeling, some remark in this collection. The poem "The Circle Game" itself is heavy with emotion, and it makes the reader feel. This is one of my favorite collections from Atwood. Can't see the [... more]
$11.95
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Beyond Remembering: The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
One of Canada's finest: One of the last things Al Purdy worked on before his death last year (1999? or was it 2000? I forget the exact date) was a definitive edition of his collected poems; he helped select these, and wrote a preface. Coming just a few [... more]
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The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English (PBK)
Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780195404500 ISBN: 0195404505 Number Of Pages: 526 Publication Date: 1985-01-31 [... more]
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Morning in the Burned House
Profound. Simple. Human.: This book is very aptly titled. The poems feel like waking up in a pile of cinders that used to be a house. Not sad really. Just sort of empty. As if everything has been reduced to stark facts with a few flowers sprouting here [... more]
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Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995
Author: Margaret Atwood Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 811 EAN: 9781860495052 ISBN: 1860495052 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: 1998-01 [... more]
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The Door
UNSENTIMENTAL ELEGIES: Margaret Atwood's THE DOOR could very well have been subtitled UNSENTIMENTAL ELEGIES: the same clear-eyed, sometimes caustic observations that give her novels their energy and force are also everywhere apparent in this strong [... more]
$25.00
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