Morning in the Burned HouseThese 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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alive angels arms ASPARAGUS birds blue body bone bored breath BURNED HOUSE clothes colour damp dance dark thing dead death dream everything eyes father fingers fire flesh flowers forest gelatin GIRL WITHOUT HANDS GLACIER goddess gone green grey hair Half-hanged Mary happen head heart Hunger corrupts KING LEAR knees lake lard LEAR IN RESPITE leaves let go limestone living longer look MARGARET ATWOOD MARSH LANGUAGES melted metal mildew MORNING mother Mothertongue Mothertongue mouth neck never nineteen forty-three nipples once Ottawa River OWL BURNING PINK HOTEL prayer RED FOX remember RESPITE CARE rope SAN PEDRO RIVER SECULAR NIGHT shadow SHAPECHANGERS IN WINTER silent skin skirts smell snow teeth tell there's tin cup trees turns itself inside VERMILION FLYCATCHER walking watch waves weeds whisper wind seethes window woman women words yellow