Atwood, Margaret (Vol. 3) - Atwood, Margaret 1939–
Atwood, Margaret 1939–
Ms. Atwood is an award-winning Canadian poet, novelist, and critic.
Power Politics looks at the relationship between man and woman from only one angle, and perhaps even from the point of view of one particular relationship, and maybe through the kind of telephoto close-ups achieved by keeping a long distance away from the subject. This is fine; other poets are free to examine the same subject from another angle, or from the point of view of a different kind of relationship, or by jamming their cameras right down their subject's throat. Margaret Atwood might do this herself in another book, but in Power Politics she does it this way and she does it well. Her book is controlled, intelligent, incisive and revealing, and it is totally free of stridency, self-pity, or any other kind of vulgarity of the mind….
Power Politics—perhaps with a few of its images reversed—could have been written by any...
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