num_pages: 62
description: Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. Thirty years later it still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple and universal. Clear, direct, wry, unrelenting —Atwood's poetic powers are honed to perfection in this important early work.
language: English
title: Power Politics: Poems
titlecomplete: Power Politics: Poems (A List)
genres: 20th Century, Canada, Politics, Canadian Literature, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Feminism, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 1250
publisher: House of Anansi Press