
- 240 pages
- English
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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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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- From THE CIRCLE GAME (1966)
- This is a photograph of me
- After the flood, we
- The city planners
- Eventual Proteus
- The circle game
- Migration: C.P.R.
- Journey to the interior
- Some objects of wood and stone
- Pre-amphibian
- Against still life
- A place: fragments
- The explorers
- The settlers
- From THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY (1968)
- The animals in that country
- A foundling
- The landlady
- A fortification
- At the tourist centre in Boston
- Elegy for the giant tortoises
- Roominghouse, winter
- It is dangerous to read newspapers
- Progressive insanities of a pioneer
- Speeches for Dr Frankenstein
- Backdrop addresses cowboy
- I was reading a scientific article
- More and more
- A voice
- The reincarnation of Captain Cook
- Axiom
- THE JOURNALS OF SUSANNA MOODIE (1970)
- JOURNAL I 1832–1840
- Disembarking at Quebec
- Further arrivals
- First neighbours
- The planters
- The wereman
- Paths and thingscape
- The two fires
- Looking in a mirror
- Departure from the bush
- JOURNAL II 1840–1871
- Death of a young son by drowning
- The immigrants
- Dream 1: the bush garden
- 1837 war in retrospect
- Dream 2: Brian the still-hunter
- Charivari
- Dream 3: night bear which frightened cattle
- The deaths of the other children
- The double voice
- JOURNAL III 1871–1969
- Later in Belleville: career
- Daguerreotype taken in old age
- Wish: metamorphosis to heraldic emblem
- Visit to Toronto, with companions
- Solipsism while dying
- Thoughts from underground
- Alternate thoughts from underground
- Resurrection
- A bus along St Clair: December
- From PROCEDURES FOR UNDERGROUND (1970)
- Game after supper
- Girl and horse, 1928
- The small cabin
- Midwinter, presolstice
- Procedures for underground
- Dreams of the animals
- Cyclops
- Three desk objects
- Projected slide of an unknown soldier
- Comic books vs. history (1949, 1969)
- Highest altitude
- A morning
- A soul, geologically
- Habitation
- Woman skating
- Younger sister, going swimming
- Fishing for eel totems
- Buffalo in compound: Alberta
- Carrying food home in winter
- From POWER POLITICS (1971)
- You take my hand
- She considers evading him
- They eat out
- After the agony
- My beautiful wooden leader
- You want to go back
- Their attitudes differ
- After all
- Yes at first
- We are hard
- At first I was given
- You refuse to own
- We hear nothing
- You did it
- This is a mistake
- Beyond truth
- They are hostile nations
- Spring again
- I am sitting
- I see you
- What is it
- You are the sun
- Hesitations outside the door
- Lying here
- I look up
- I can’t tell you
- They were all inaccurate
- From YOU ARE HAPPY (1974)
- Newsreel: man and firing squad
- November
- Digging
- Tricks with mirrors
- You are happy
- SONGS OF THE TRANSFORMED
- Pig son
- Bull song
- Rat song
- Crow song
- Song of the worms
- Owl song
- Siren song
- Song of the fox
- Song of the hen’s head
- Corpse song
- CIRCE/MUD POEMS
- Is/not
- Eating fire
- Four auguries
- Head against white
- There is only one of everything
- Late August
- Book of ancestors
- About the Author
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