The Door
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780618942725 (0618942726)
ASIN: 0618942726
Publish date: 2007-11-07
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Literary Fiction,
Anthologies,
Collections,
Contemporary,
Poetry,
Womens,
Canada,
Canadian Literature,
Fiction
It is inevitable that a book of poetry contains hits and misses for every reader. I personally enjoyed the poems in The Door that were more visceral and explicit. A prime example would be her poem "Secrecy": Secrecy flows through you,a different kind of blood.It's as if you've eaten itlike a bad ...
Poetry is an art form that I tentatively love. I restrain myself, I make sure that I don't become that sort of teenage girl, the one that ties her hormonal ups and downs with angsty metaphors and off-beat rhythms. Because of this I sometimes forget that poetry is more then that. There can be meaning...
My first real foray into reading poetry. While I'm sure there was a lot that was beyond my comprehension, I still enjoyed it, nonetheless. Also being the first work by Atwood that I've ever read, I'm not sure how it compares to her fiction.
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