Selected Poems Ii: 1976 - 1986

Selected Poems II is an essential collection from the critically acclaimed, best-selling author Margaret Atwood that traces her work from 1976-1986. Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Margaret Atwood is also one our most significant contemporary poets. Selected Poems II presents Margaret Atwood’s work of the decade following 1976 – important years of change and new themes in her poetry. It includes selections from Two-Headed Poems (1978), True Stories (1981), Interlunar (1984), and prose poems from Murder in the Dark (1983). As in her fiction, Atwood ruminates on oppression and injustice and on the genders and their discontents, but beyond these surface dissonances we hear the music of compassion and fellowship and love. “Marked by an unflinching inspection of the world” (New York Times Book Review), Selected Poems II contains some of Atwood’s most extraordinary writing, and is sure to captivate readers for years to come.