Selected Poems 1
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Selected Poems 1

1965-1975

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Selected Poems 1

1965-1975

About this book

Gathered from Margaret Atwood’s work over the decade of 1965–1975, Selected Poems 1 is a lasting collection from one of our most celebrated contemporary writers.

Margaret Atwood’s early poetry garnered widespread critical recognition and helped establish her reputation as one of the most provocative modern literary talents. Selected Poems 1 draws from six volumes published early in Atwood’s career: The Circle Game (1966), which received the Governor General’s Award; The Animals in That Country (1968); Procedures for Underground (1970); The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970); Power Politics (1971); and You Are Happy (1974). In these early poems, Atwood considers the space between the cruelties of civilization and the wonders of nature, the dissonance of Canadian identity, and the line where beauty becomes sinister. With poems that are “glistening with terse, bright images, untentative, closing like a vise” (New York Times), this is an essential collection to be treasured for years to come.

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Information

Publisher
Ecco
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780395404225
eBook ISBN
9780547525471

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contents
  3. Copyright
  4. From THE CIRCLE GAME (1966)
  5. This is a photograph of me
  6. After the flood, we
  7. The city planners
  8. Eventual Proteus
  9. The circle game
  10. Migration: C.P.R.
  11. Journey to the interior
  12. Some objects of wood and stone
  13. Pre-amphibian
  14. Against still life
  15. A place: fragments
  16. The explorers
  17. The settlers
  18. From THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY (1968)
  19. The animals in that country
  20. A foundling
  21. The landlady
  22. A fortification
  23. At the tourist centre in Boston
  24. Elegy for the giant tortoises
  25. Roominghouse, winter
  26. It is dangerous to read newspapers
  27. Progressive insanities of a pioneer
  28. Speeches for Dr Frankenstein
  29. Backdrop addresses cowboy
  30. I was reading a scientific article
  31. More and more
  32. A voice
  33. The reincarnation of Captain Cook
  34. Axiom
  35. THE JOURNALS OF SUSANNA MOODIE (1970)
  36. JOURNAL I 1832–1840
  37. Disembarking at Quebec
  38. Further arrivals
  39. First neighbours
  40. The planters
  41. The wereman
  42. Paths and thingscape
  43. The two fires
  44. Looking in a mirror
  45. Departure from the bush
  46. JOURNAL II 1840–1871
  47. Death of a young son by drowning
  48. The immigrants
  49. Dream 1: the bush garden
  50. 1837 war in retrospect
  51. Dream 2: Brian the still-hunter
  52. Charivari
  53. Dream 3: night bear which frightened cattle
  54. The deaths of the other children
  55. The double voice
  56. JOURNAL III 1871–1969
  57. Later in Belleville: career
  58. Daguerreotype taken in old age
  59. Wish: metamorphosis to heraldic emblem
  60. Visit to Toronto, with companions
  61. Solipsism while dying
  62. Thoughts from underground
  63. Alternate thoughts from underground
  64. Resurrection
  65. A bus along St Clair: December
  66. From PROCEDURES FOR UNDERGROUND (1970)
  67. Game after supper
  68. Girl and horse, 1928
  69. The small cabin
  70. Midwinter, presolstice
  71. Procedures for underground
  72. Dreams of the animals
  73. Cyclops
  74. Three desk objects
  75. Projected slide of an unknown soldier
  76. Comic books vs. history (1949, 1969)
  77. Highest altitude
  78. A morning
  79. A soul, geologically
  80. Habitation
  81. Woman skating
  82. Younger sister, going swimming
  83. Fishing for eel totems
  84. Buffalo in compound: Alberta
  85. Carrying food home in winter
  86. From POWER POLITICS (1971)
  87. You take my hand
  88. She considers evading him
  89. They eat out
  90. After the agony
  91. My beautiful wooden leader
  92. You want to go back
  93. Their attitudes differ
  94. After all
  95. Yes at first
  96. We are hard
  97. At first I was given
  98. You refuse to own
  99. We hear nothing
  100. You did it
  101. This is a mistake
  102. Beyond truth
  103. They are hostile nations
  104. Spring again
  105. I am sitting
  106. I see you
  107. What is it
  108. You are the sun
  109. Hesitations outside the door
  110. Lying here
  111. I look up
  112. I can’t tell you
  113. They were all inaccurate
  114. From YOU ARE HAPPY (1974)
  115. Newsreel: man and firing squad
  116. November
  117. Digging
  118. Tricks with mirrors
  119. You are happy
  120. SONGS OF THE TRANSFORMED
  121. Pig son
  122. Bull song
  123. Rat song
  124. Crow song
  125. Song of the worms
  126. Owl song
  127. Siren song
  128. Song of the fox
  129. Song of the hen’s head
  130. Corpse song
  131. CIRCE/MUD POEMS
  132. Is/not
  133. Eating fire
  134. Four auguries
  135. Head against white
  136. There is only one of everything
  137. Late August
  138. Book of ancestors
  139. About the Author
  140. Connect with HMH