Morning in the burned house / Margaret Atwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--20th century.

Poetry, Modern.

Poetry as Topic.

Medical Subjects:

Poetry as Topic.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

127 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Summary:

These 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.

Contents:

You come back

Sad child

In the secular night

Waiting

February

Asparagus

Red fox

Miss July grows older

Manet's Olympia

Daphne and Laura and so forth

Cressida to Troilus: A gift

Ava Gardner reincarnated as a magnolia

Helen of Troy does counter dancing

Man looks

Sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess of War, violent storms, pestilence, and recovery from illness, contemplates the desert in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Romantic

Cell

Loneliness of the military historian

Marsh languages

Frogless

Half-hanged Mary

Owl burning

Down

Pink hotel in California

Man in a glacier

Wave

King Lear in respite care

Visit

Dancing

Bored

Flowers

Two dreams

Time

Two dream, 2

Oh

Ottawa River by night

Vermilion flycatcher, San Pedro River, Arizona

Moment

Up

Girl without hands

Signer

Fire place

Statuary

Shapechangers in winter

Morning in the burned house.

Notes:

Poems.

Other Format:

Online version: Atwood, Margaret, 1939- Morning in the burned house.

ISBN:

0395755913

9780395755914

0395825210

9780395825211

OCLC:

32665483

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