The Door

By Margaret Atwood

Details

Publisher: Virago
Publication Date: 2009 - 08 - 06
ISBN: 9781844084951
Themes: Poetry Society Bereavement Grief

Preface

Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality.