Morning in the burned house

Atwood, Margaret 1939- (author.).

Summary: "These beautifully crafted poems–by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender and intimate–come together as Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering of poems to date, “setting foot on the middle ground/between body and word.” Some draw on history, and on myth, both classical and popular. Other, more personal poems 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–as they inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past.Generous, compassionate, disturbing, this is poetry that emanates from the heart of human experience and seeks balance between the luminous realm of memory and the realities of everyday, between darkness and light, the capacity to perpetrate and the strength to forgive.Morning in the Burned House is infused with breathtaking insight, technical virtuosity, and a clarity of vision that has the force to change the way we look at our lives." -- publisher's description

Record details

ISBN: 9780771008306
ISBN: 0771008309
Physical Description: print
127 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : McClelland & Stewart, [1995]
Copyright: ©1995

Content descriptions

General Note:

Poems.

Formatted Contents Note:

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