Atwood, Margaret (Vol. 4) | Atwood, Margaret 1939–
Atwood, Margaret 1939–
Ms Atwood is an accomplished Canadian poet and novelist whose richly complex work has been awarded several important Canadian prizes. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 49-52.)
Much of what Margaret Atwood says in [Procedures For Underground] she has said in her previous books. She presents a world of peripheries, under-surfaces, divisions and isolation similar to the one in The Circle Game, but it would be a mistake to think that Procedures For Underground is simply a repetition of her earlier work. Certainly the surface of these poems remains the same; many of the images of drowning, buried life, still life, dreams, journeys and returns recur and the book is locked into a very repressive and inhibited atmosphere, even though the time-scope of the book is large, covering the chronological stretch from pre-history to the present. As in The Circle Game, personal relationships offer only...
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