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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Page 30
... Slowly , slowly , nobody wants a mess . I float over the black roads , pure ice . 5 No way clear , I write on the lines across this yellow paper . Poetry . It's details like this that drag at me , and the nasty little bells on the ...
... Slowly , slowly , nobody wants a mess . I float over the black roads , pure ice . 5 No way clear , I write on the lines across this yellow paper . Poetry . It's details like this that drag at me , and the nasty little bells on the ...
Page 72
... slowly like a thumb pressed down on target ; indolent V's ; flies , until they drop . Then they're hyenas , raucous around the kill , flapping their black umbrellas , the feathered red - eyed widows whose pot bodies violate mourning ...
... slowly like a thumb pressed down on target ; indolent V's ; flies , until they drop . Then they're hyenas , raucous around the kill , flapping their black umbrellas , the feathered red - eyed widows whose pot bodies violate mourning ...
Page 79
... slowly cell by cell or worn down that's how . Of what use is the body dancing , except to mark the vacancy against which we measure sound ? Close your eyes , out of sight is out of time , draw your hand again & again over my skin ...
... slowly cell by cell or worn down that's how . Of what use is the body dancing , except to mark the vacancy against which we measure sound ? Close your eyes , out of sight is out of time , draw your hand again & again over my skin ...
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