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Morning in the Burned House
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Morning in the Burned House Paperback - 2023

by Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

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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.

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Houghton Mifflin. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.
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  • Title Morning in the Burned House
  • Author Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA
  • Date 2023-09-05
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 780228
  • ISBN 9780395825211 / 0395825210
  • Weight 0.32 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.28 x 5.42 x 0.39 in (18.49 x 13.77 x 0.99 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, Modern - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95022797
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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.

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  • Quill & Quire Books of the Yr, 12/01/2009, Page 1