ATWOOD, MARGARET (1939)
The Door




Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston/New York. 2007. First American Edition/First printing as identified with "1" in the full number line. Hardcover. With dustjacket. 153 pp. 16 x 23½ x 1½ cm. 308 gr. Jacket design C.S. Richardson. ISBN-10 0 618 94272 6. ISBN-13 978 0 618 94272 5.






The Door, Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since her award-winning Morning in the Burned House, is a magnificent achievement. These fifty lucid, urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative 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.






The poems of The Door demonstrate self-awareness on the part of the author. They confront themes of advancing age and encroaching death (Atwood was 68 in 2007), as well as authorial fame and the drive to produce writing. Less autobiographical themes are also explored in The Door, including environmental issues, torture and war.






Unclipped dust jacket. Crisp and clean with no inscriptions. Not including CD of poems read by author. Dustjacket shows minor rubbing. A fine copy.





Booknumber: 20607