Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986

Houghton Mifflin Now Proudly Publishes Selected Poems Ii, A Volume Of Selections From Atwood's Poetry Of The Last Ten Years. Underlying Oppression And Injustice, We Hear The Music Of Compassion And Fellowship. From Two-headed Poems (1978): A Paper Bag -- The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart -- Five Poems For Dolls -- Five Poems For Grandmothers -- Marrying The Hangman -- Four Small Elegies -- Two-headed Poems -- The Bus To Alliston, Ontario -- The Woman Makes Peace With Her Faulty Heart -- Solstice Poem -- Marsh, Hawk -- A Red Shirt -- Night Poem -- All Bread -- You Being. From True Stories (1981): True Stories -- Landcrab I -- Landcrab Ii -- Postcard -- Nothing. From Notes Towards A Poem That Can Never Be Written: A Conversation -- Flying Inside Your Own Body -- Torture -- A Woman's Issue -- Christmas Carols -- Notes Towards A Poem That Can Never Be Written -- Vultures -- Sunset Ii -- Variation On The Word Sleep -- Mushrooms -- Out -- Blue Dwarfs -- Last Day. From Interlunar (1984): From Snake Poems: Snake Woman -- Bad Mouth -- Eating Snake -- Metempsychosis -- Psalm To Snake -- Quattrocento -- After Heraclitus. From Interlunar: Bedside -- Recognition -- Keep -- Anchorage -- Georgia Beach -- A Sunday Drive -- Orpheus (1) -- Eurydice -- The Robber Bridegroom -- Letter From Persephone -- No Name -- Orpheus (2) -- The Words Continue Their Journey -- Heart Test With An Echo Chamber -- A Boat -- Interlunar. New Poems (1985-1986): Aging Female Poet Sits On The Balcony -- Porcupine Tree -- Aging Female Poet Reads Little Magazines -- Porcupine Meditation -- Aging Female Poet On Laundry Day -- Nightshade On The Way To School -- Mothers -- She -- Werewolf Movies -- How To Tell One Country From Another -- Machine. Gun. Nest. -- The Rest -- Another Elegy -- Galiano Coast: Four Entrances -- Squaw Lilies: Some Notes -- Three Praises -- Not The Moon. Margaret Atwood.