Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

A collection of poems that gravitate between the personal and political, the lyrical and meditative, and the ironic and prophetic, exploring such themes as the writing of poetry, the awareness of mortality, and the passage of time.

The Door

Melanie Richards

Sorry Marge, but so far this is my least favorite collection of Atwood poems. Though formally speaking there are some really nice moments, the whole thing was far too meta for me to get into. I would suggest Morning in the Burned House or The Circle Game over this one.

Hayley

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Amy Grieve

A stunning lyrical achievement and Atwood's first collection of new poems in over a decade. The Door is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since 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.

The Door

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