Selected Poems: 1965-1975

Poems Deal With Death, Self-image, Disasters, Politics, Children, Evolution, History, The News, Language, Dreams, Animals, And Love. From The Circle Game: This Is A Photograph Of Me -- After The Flood, We -- City Planners -- Eventual Proteus -- Circle Game -- Migration, C.p.r. -- Journey To The Interior -- Some Objects Of Wood And Stone -- Pre-amphibian -- Against Still Life -- Place, Fragments -- Explorers -- Settlers -- From The Animals In That Country: The Animals In That Country -- Foundling -- Landlady -- Fortification -- At The Tourist Centre In Boston -- Elegy For The Giant Tortoises -- Roominghouse, Winter -- It Is Dangerous To Read Newspapers -- Progressive Insanities Of A Pioneer -- Speeches For Dr. Frankenstein -- Backdrop Addresses Cowboy -- I Was Reading A Scientific Article -- More And More -- Voice -- Reincarnation Of Captain Cook -- Axiom -- I Am Sitting -- I See You -- What Is It -- You Are The Sun -- Hesitations Outside The Door -- Lying Here -- I Look Up -- I Can't Tell You -- They Were All Inaccurate -- From You Are Happy: Newsreel, Man And Firing Squad -- November -- Digging -- Tricks With Mirrors -- You Are Happy -- Songs Of The Transformed: Pig Song -- Bull Song -- Rat Song -- Crow Song -- Song Of The Worms -- Owl Song -- Siren Song -- Song Of The Fox -- Song Of The Hen's Head -- Corpse Song -- Circe/mud Poems: Is/not -- Eating Fire -- Four Auguries -- Head Against White -- There Is Only One Of Everything -- Late August -- Book Of Ancestors. Margaret Atwood.