True Stories"True stories intensifies and extends many of the themes in Margaret Atwood's critically acclaimed novel Bodily harm: the necessity of bearing witness to the crimes of repressive political societies and the redemptive power of friendship. Many of the poems are conerned with the unreliability of human perception and the self-deluding "true" stories we tell to give ourselves a sense of identity of stature. The collection also includes a number of extraordinarily and passionate and luminous love poems."--Back cover. |
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