The Door Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since Morning in the Burned House is a
magnificent achievement. Here in paperback for the first time these fifty lucid urgent poems
range in tone from lyric to ironic to mediative 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. Brave and
compassionate The Door interrogates the certainties that we build our lives on and reminds us
once again of Margaret Atwood's unique accomplishments as one of the finest and most celebrated
writers of our time.
