"Atwood's poems are ... glistening with terse bright images, untentative, closing like a vise." (New York Times Book Review)
Powerful and startling, Margaret Atwood's poetry addresses the conflicts between humankind and nature, between men and women, and between nations.
This cycle of poems is perhaps the most memorable evocation in modern Canadian literature of the myth of the wilderness, the immigrant experience, and the alienating and schizophrenic effects of the colonial mentality. Since it was first published in 1970 it has not only acquired the stature of a
"A playful, informed and briskly sensible discussion of the writing life" (Sunday Telegraph)
