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  Eating Fire: Selected Poetry 1965-1995 (Paperback) By (author) Margaret Atwood

  

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  Short Description for Eating FireAn omnibus edition of Margaret Atwood's poetry 1965 - 1995 including the latest collection Morning in the Burned House
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  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
  • Published: 01 October 1998
  • Format: Paperback 384 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9781860495052 ISBN 10: 1860495052
  • Sales rank: 120,249

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Full description for Eating Fire

• The evolution of Margaret Atwood's poetry illuminates one of our major literary talents. Here, as in her novels, is intensity combined with sardonic detachment, and in these early poems her genius for a level stare at the ordinary is wonderfully apparent. Just as startling is her ability to contrast the everyday with the terrifying: 'Each time I hit a key/ on my electric typewriter/ speaking of peaceful trees/ another village explodes.' Her poetic voice is crystal clear, insistent, unmistakably her own. Through bus trips and postcards, wilderness and trivia, she reflects the passion and energy of a writer intensely engaged with her craft and the world. Two former collections, Poems 1965 - 1975 and Poems 1976 - 1986, are presented together with her latest collection, Morning in the Burned House, in this omnibus that represents the development of a major poet.