Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood (English) Paperback Book

Description: Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The renowned poet and author of The Handmaids Tale "brings a swift, powerful energy" to this "intimate and immediate" poetry collection (Publishers Weekly). These beautifully crafted poems, by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate, are some of Margaret Atwoods most accomplished and versatile works. Some draw on history and some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death. 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. Author Biography Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of over fifty books, including fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaids Tale, now an award-winning television series, her works include Cats Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; The Heart Goes Last; Hag-Seed; The Testaments, which won the Booker Prize and was long-listed for the Giller Prize; and the poetry collection Dearly. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovators Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in Great Britain for her services to literature. She lives in Toronto. Review "Intimate and immediate." -- Publishers Weekly"The vein of grieving that moves through this book like a dark tracer runs purest in a series of elegiac poems about the death of the poets father." -- Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle"Atwoods savage, back-talking monologues have become her trademark...Her range is darkened and deepened with a series of elegiac poems about her dying father, and she, the speaker, the daughter, faces the inevitable fall into the future from which her wit and magic cant save her. We know Atwood is a prolific novelist. Remember also her poetic voice." -- Molly Bendall, The Antioch Review Details ISBN0395825210 Author Margaret Atwood Pages 144 Language English ISBN-10 0395825210 ISBN-13 9780395825211 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 811.54 Edition Description None Short Title MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE Residence Toronto, -CN Birth 1939 DOI 10.1604/9780395825211 Imprint Houghton Mifflin Place of Publication Boston Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 1996-09-16 NZ Release Date 1996-09-16 Publisher Houghton Mifflin Audience General Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-09-05 US Release Date 2023-09-05 UK Release Date 2023-09-05 Imprint US Ecco Publisher US HarperCollins We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:7273000;

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