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The Door
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The Door is Margaret Atwood’s lyrical book of poetry that followed the the award-winning Morning in the Burned House (1995). Its fifty lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political, viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. The collection begins with poems that consider the past and ends with harbingers of things to come. Brave and compassionate, The Door interrogates the certainties that we build our lives on.
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| Weight | 0.1674352 kg |
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| Dimensions | 0.8128 × 13.462 × 21.4376 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 128 |
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| Year Published | 2009-9-8 |
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| Publication City/Country | Canada |
| ISBN 10 | 0771008473 |
| About The Author | MARGARET ATWOOD is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid’s Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include The Testaments, which was the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize; Cat’s Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; The Heart Goes Last; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In 2019, she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She lives in Toronto. |
“Atwood’s poems are short, glistening with terse, bright images, untentative, closing like a vise. . . . A plain, explicit poetry, perfectly sure of itself.” —The New York Times “Margaret Atwood is best known, of course, as a novelist. But she brings to her poetry the same sharp eye and stinging wit.” —The Washington Post “Margaret Atwood’s The Door is one of the best books by one of the best poets writing in English, written in a sparse, elegiac tone that combines illuminating intelligence with caustic humour, and wisdom that for once truly comes with age.” —Alberto Manguel, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year |
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| Table Of Content | IGasoline 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 IIThe 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 IIITen o'clock news The weather It's autumn Bear lament Ice palace Secrecy The last rational man White cotton 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 IVEnough of these discouragements Possible activities Questioning the dead The nature of Gothic The line: five variations Another visit to the Oracle VBoat 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 Acknowledgements |
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