The Door: Poems

By Margaret Atwood and Phoebe Larmore

Book Overview

A book of fifty lucid, urgent poems from internationally acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author Margaret Atwood.

In The Door, Margaret Atwood investigates the mysterious writing of poetry itself as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. The Door ranges in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and touches on subjects both personal and political. Brave and compassionate, this collection interrogates the certainties that we build our lives on and reminds us once again of Atwood's unique accomplishments as one of the finest and most celebrated writers of our time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547237707
• ISBN13: 9780547237701
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Atwood returns to poetry

From the cat in the freezer to dealing with her grief you will want to own this book to read and re-read.

UNSENTIMENTAL ELEGIES

Margaret Atwood's THE DOOR could very well have been subtitled UNSENTIMENTAL ELEGIES: the same clear-eyed, sometimes caustic observations that give her novels their energy and force are also everywhere apparent in this strong collection of short poems. At times intensely personal, Atwood's poems seek to find a common thread of humanity in their narration of such every day tragedies as the death of a beloved cat, or the slow onset of her mother's senility. Always alive to the possibility that suffering can distort our humanity, render us blind and selfish, Atwood shows us that we must learn to be sentimental in only the best and highest sense of that word. Altogether THE DOOR is a good solid collection that is perfectly in keeping with Atwood's masterful, often inspired fiction. Recommended.