Selected Poems - Hardcover

Margaret Atwood

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671228854 ISBN 13: 9780671228859

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1978

Synopsis

Poems selected by the Canadian poet from her six collections record her development as an increasingly acclaimed poet and the complexity of her sensibility and vision

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About the Author

Author of more than 40 books, Margaret Atwood has won as many awards, including the Union Poetry Prize (Chicago), the Bess Hoskins Prize (Chicago), the Radcliffe Graduate Medal, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Welsh Arts Council International Writers Prize, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Writers Award, the Ritz Hemingway Prize (Paris), the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best Science Fiction, the John Hughes Prize of the Welsh Development Board, and a Centennial Medal from Harvard University. Her work has been translated into more than sixteen languages.

Review

1837 War In Retrospect
After All
After The Agony
After The Flood, We
Against Still Life
Alternate Thoughts From Underground
The Animals In That Country
At First I Was Given
At The Tourist Center In Boston
Axiom
Backdrop Addresses Cowboy
Beyond Truth
Book Of Ancestors
Buffalo In Compound, Alberta
Bull Song
A Bus Along St Clair: December
Carrying Food Home In Winter
Charivari
The Circle Game
The City Planners
Comic Books Vs. History (1949, 1969)
Corpse Song
Crow Song
Cyclops
Daguerreotype Taken In Old Age
Death Of A Young Son By Drowning
The Deaths Of The Other Children
Departure From The Bush
Digging
Disembarking At Quebec
The Double Voice
Dream 1: The Bush Garden
Dream 2: Brian The Still-hunter
Dream 3: Night Bear Which Frightened Cattle
Dreams Of The Animals
Eating Fire
Elegy For The Giant Tortoises
Eventual Proteus
The Explorers
First Neighbours
Fishing For Eel Totems
The Fist, Withered And Strung
A Fortification
A Foundling
Further Arrivals
Game After Supper
Girl And Horse, 1928
Habitation
Heads Against White
Here Are The Holy Birds,
Hesitations Outside The Door
Highest Altitude
Holding My Arms Down
I Am Sitting
I Can't Tell You
I Look Up
I Made No Choice
I See You
I Was Reading A Scientific Article
The Immigrants
Is/not
It Is Dangerous To Read Newspapers
It Was Not My Fault, These Animals
It's The Story That Counts. No Use Telling Me This
Journey To The Interior
The Landlady
Last Year I Abstained
Late August
Later In Belleville: Career
Looking In A Mirror
Lying Here, Everything In Me
Men With The Heads Of Eagles
Midwinter, Presolstice
Migration: C.p.r.
More And More
A Morning
My Beautiful Wooden Leader
My Face, My Other Faces
Newsreel: Man And Firing Squad
Not You I Fear But That Other
November
Now It Is Winter.
Owl Song
Paths And Thingscape
People Come From All Over To Consult Me,
A Place: Fragments
The Planters
Pre-amphibian
Procedures For Underground
Progressive Insanities Of A Pioneer
Projected Slide Of An Unknown Soldier
Rat Song
The Reincarnation Of Captain Cook
Resurrection
Roominghouse, Winter
The Settlers
She Considers Evading Him
Siren Song
The Small Cabin
Solipsism While Dying
Some Objects Of Wood And Stone: I. Totems
Some Objects Of Wood And Stone: Ii. Pebbles
Some Objects Of Wood And Stone: Iii. Carved Animals
Song Of The Fox
Song Of The Hen's Head
Song Of The Worms
Songs Of The Transformed: Pig Song
A Soul, Geologically
Speeches For Dr Frankenstein
Spring Again, Can I Stand It
Their Attitudes Differ
There Are So Many Things I Want
There Are Two Islands
There Is Only One Of Everything
There Must Be More For You To Do
They Are Hostile Nations
They Eat Out
They Were All Inacurrate
This Is A Mistake
This Is A Photograph Of Me
This Is Not Something That Can Be Renounced.
This Story Was Told To Me By Another Traveller
Thoughts From Underground
Three Desk Objects
Through This Forest
Tricks With Mirrors
The Two Fires
Visit To Toronto, With Companions
A Voice
We Are Hard
We Hear Nothing
We Walk In The Cedar Groves
The Wereman
What Is It
When You Look At Nothing
Wish: Metamorphosis To Heraldic Emblem
Woman Skating
Yes At First
You Are Happy
You Are The Sun
You Did It
You Fit Into Me
You May Wonder Why I'm Not Describing The Landscape
You Refuse To Own
You Stand At The Door
You Take My Hand
You Think You Are Safe At Last. After Your Misadventures,
You Want To Go Back
Younger Sister, Going Swimming
Your Flawed Body, Sickle
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0671228854
• ISBN 13: 9780671228859
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240