The renowned poet and author of The Handmaid's Tale brings a swift powerful energy to this
intimate and immediate poetry collection (Publishers Weekly). These beautifully crafted poems
by turns dark playful intensely moving tender and intimate are some of Margaret Atwood's
most accomplished and versatile works. Some draw on history and some on myth both classical
and popular. Others more personal concern themselves with love with the fragility of the
natural world and with death. Generous searing compassionate and disturbing this poetry
rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the
everyday between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.
