Selected Poems: 1965-1975
Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade.
Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780395404225 (0395404223)
ASIN: 395404223
Publish date: November 5th 1987
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
There were only a handful of poems that I liked in this book and the rest were meh. The thing is the ones I did like, I REALLY liked. Weirdly enough my favorite poem of the book was the first one. Most of Atwood's poems seemed, to me, to go nowhere and have no apparent meaning. She can be very descr...
Is there anything this woman can't do? I don't think so. Some things are better than others, and not everything engages, but she's remarkable and a favorite. No one maps the terrain of intimate relationships quite like she does, and over the years I've appreciated the release her words have provided...
Overall not generally to my taste, with a few amazing exceptions ("Habitation," "Their attitudes differ," "After all you are quite," "At first I was given centuries").