The evolution of Margaret Atwood's poetry illuminates one of our major literary talents. Here, as in her novels, is intensity combined with sardonic detachment, and in these early poems her genius for a level stare at the ordinary is wonderfully apparent. Just as startling is her ability to contrast the everyday with the terrifying: 'Each time I hit a key/ on my electric typewriter/ speaking of peaceful trees/ another village explodes.' Her poetic voice is crystal clear, insistent, unmistakably her own. Through bus trips and postcards, wilderness and trivia, she reflects the passion and energy of a writer intensely engaged with her craft and the world. Two former collections, Poems 1965 - 1975 and Poems 1976 - 1986, are presented together with her latest collection, Morning in the Burned House, in this omnibus that represents the development of a major poet.
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An omnibus edition of Margaret Atwood's poetry 1965 - 1995 including the latest collection Morning in the Burned House
Atwood is the quiet Mata Hari, the mysterious, violent figure ... who pits herself against the ordered too-clean world like an arsonist Michael Ondaatje An acute and poetic observer of the eternal, universal rum relations between women and men THE TIMES Detached, ironic... poems that sing off the page and sting Michele Roberts Lean, symbolic, thoroughly Atwoodesque prose honed into elegant columns... SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781860495052
Publisert
1998-10-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Virago Press Ltd
Vekt
307 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

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Biographical note

Margaret Atwood's novel, ALIAS GRACE, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1996. She has written many novels, including the prize-winning THE HANDMAID'S TALE, which was also a successful film. In 2000 she won the Booker Prize for her novel The Blind Assassin.