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Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : CD audio : Audio book, etc.   Sound Recording : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The first anthology of poetry in more than a decade from the renowned author of The Handmaid's Tale features fifty richly varied poems that range in tone and subject matter, from the personal to the political, and from the lyric and ironic to meditative and prophetic, as they explore the writing of poetry itself, the passage of time, mortality, and more.
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Material Type: Audio book, etc., Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Sound Recording, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 9780618942725 0618942726
OCLC Number: 123968826
Description: 120 p. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Contents: I. Gasoline --
Europe on $5 a day --
Year of the Hen --
Resurrecting the dolls' house --
Blackie in Antarctica --
Mourning for cats --
January --
Butterfly --
My mother dwindles ... --
Crickets --
II. The poet has come back ... --
Heart --
Your children cut their hands ... --
Sor Juana works in the garden --
Owl and Pussycat, some years later --
The poets hang on --
Poetry reading --
A poor woman learns to write --
The singer of owls --
III. Ten o'clock news --
The weather --
It's autumn --
Bear lament --
Ice palace --
Secrecy --
The last rational man --
White cotten t-shirt --
War photo --
War photo 2 --
Nobody cares who wins --
The valley of the heretics --
Saint Joan of Arc on a postcard --
The hurt child --
They give evidence --
IV. Enough of these discouragements --
Possible activities --
Questioning the dead --
The nature of Gothic --
The line: five variations --
Another visit to the Oracle --
Boat song --
Dutiful --
String tail --
Stealing the hummingbird cup --
One day you will reach ... --
Disturbed earth --
Reindeer moss on granite --
The Third Age visits the Arctic --
You heard the man you love --
At brute point --
The door.
Responsibility: Margaret Atwood.
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The first anthology of poetry in more than a decade from the renowned author of The Handmaid's Tale features fifty richly varied poems that range in tone and subject matter, from the personal to the political, and from the lyric and ironic to meditative and prophetic, as they explore the writing of poetry itself, the passage of time, mortality, and more.

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