The Door [With CD]

by Margaret Atwood and Phoebe Larmore

Book Overview

A book of fifty lucid, urgent poems from internationally acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author Margaret Atwood.In The Door, Margaret Atwood investigates the mysterious writing of poetry itself... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618942726
• ISBN13: 9780618942725
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Atwood returns to poetry

From the cat in the freezer to dealing with her grief you will want to own this book to read and re-read.

UNSENTIMENTAL ELEGIES

Margaret Atwood's THE DOOR could very well have been subtitled UNSENTIMENTAL ELEGIES: the same clear-eyed, sometimes caustic observations that give her novels their energy and force are also everywhere apparent in this strong collection of short poems. At times intensely personal, Atwood's poems seek to find a common thread of humanity in their narration of such every day tragedies as the death of a beloved cat, or the slow onset of her mother's senility. Always alive to the possibility that suffering can distort our humanity, render us blind and selfish, Atwood shows us that we must learn to be sentimental in only the best and highest sense of that word. Altogether THE DOOR is a good solid collection that is perfectly in keeping with Atwood's masterful, often inspired fiction. Recommended.