num_pages: 144
description: The renowned poet and author of  The Handmaid’s Tale  “brings a swift, powerful energy” to this “intimate and immediate” poetry collection ( Publishers Weekly ). These beautifully crafted poems — by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender, and intimate — are some of Margaret Atwood's most accomplished and versatile works, "setting foot on the middle ground / between body and word." Some draw on history, some on myth, both classical and popular. Others, more personal, concern themselves with love, with the fragility of the natural world, and with death, especially in the elegiac series of meditations on the death of a parent. But they also inhabit a contemporary landscape haunted by images of the past. Generous, searing, compassionate, and disturbing, this poetry rises out of human experience to seek a level between luminous memory and the realities of the everyday, between the capacity to inflict and the strength to forgive.
language: English
title: Morning In The Burned House
titlecomplete: Morning In The Burned House
genres: 20th Century, Canada, Female Authors, Canadian Literature, Poetry, Collections, Adult, Feminism, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2961
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Trillium Book Award
publisher: Ecco