Selected Poems
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780195402513 (0195402510)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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").
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