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These beautifully crafted poems - by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate - make up Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering to date, " setting foot on the middle ground / between body and word." Some draw on history, some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death, especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous, searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.
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Avignetta Sen
reviewed Morning in the burned house on August 09, 2017 Morning in the burned house
Margaret Atwood speaks with candid authority in this collection, whether she is talking about love or war or the minutiae of the natural world. She is particularly eloquent about aging.
From “Miss July Grows Olderâ€--
“what you get is no longer
what you see.â€
And from “King Lear in Respite Careâ€--
“Time is another element
you never think about
until it’s gone.
Things like ceilings, or air.â€
We know she has the ability to take on many personas, and she shows quite a range here, from Helen of Troy to Ava Gardner. But still, it surprised me when she took on MY persona. In the poem “Waiting,†from the first line--“Here it is then, the dark thing,†it was clear she had somehow got inside my head and wrote about my thoughts and memories.
Another remarkably rewarding read from the writer who over and over proves herself to be my favorite.
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