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Title: Dearly: New Poems
Author: Margaret Atwood
Release Date: 11.10.20
Publisher: Ecco
In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived.
While many are familiar with Margaret Atwood’s fiction—including her groundbreaking and bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, among others—she has, from the beginning of her career, been one of our most significant contemporary poets. And she is one of the very few writers equally accomplished in fiction and poetry. This collection is a stunning achievement that will be appreciated by fans of her novels and poetry readers alike.
My Review:
I have been slowly reading my way through Margaret Atwood's works for several years. So far I've read: The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, The Penelopiad, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam, and The Testaments. I was thrilled to read Atwood's newest collection of poems (her first in over a decade) and especially loved "Sorcerer's Apprentice" a nod to Goethe's poem of the same name. Juxtaposed against "The Bright Side" Atwood shows the spectrum of ruin and possibilities presented by plastics. Themes of nature have always been present in her fiction and poetry collections and Dearly is no different. Atwood pontificates on the natural wonders of insects, birds, and sea creatures but she also moves into the mythical and magical realms of zombies, sirens, and werewolves. I loved so many poems in this collection but it was "Blackberries" that moved me to tears and is definitely my favorite.
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