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  <title><![CDATA[Selected Poems: 1965-1975]]></title>
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  <default_description>Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of that decade.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1987</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read a scattered few of Atwood's poems in college classes and textbooks, and a few months ago I read her spin on the story of Odysseus, <em>Penelopiad</em>, but only now that I've consumed about 250 pages of her poems do I have a solid picture of her as a writer. This collection is a bit of a monster -- it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33430085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30161090">
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[from Power Politics<br/><br/>What is it, it does not<br/>move like love, it does<br/>not want to stroke, unfold<br/><br/>it does not even want to<br/>touch, it is more like<br/>an animal (not<br/>loving) a<br/>thing trapped, you move<br/>wounded, you are hurt, you hurt,<br/>you want to g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30161090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38475284">
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 23 14:52:57 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall not generally to my taste, with a few amazing exceptions (&quot;Habitation,&quot; &quot;Their attitudes differ,&quot; &quot;After all you are quite,&quot; &quot;At first I was given centuries&quot;).]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 29 02:17:13 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't finished all the poems but from what I have read it is wonderful. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thought provoking poetry.  Also very relatable topics.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="24526823">
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Margaret Atwood. I want to love Margaret Atwood. Other than Alice Walker, John Donne, or Anne Sexton, I'm not much into or think I can relate to the poetry I read, however. Atwood is parts nature, parts history, parts you don't bring me flowers. The dietician in me really liked this one:<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24526823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i haven't finished reading this collection of poetry yet, and honestly i'm not sure i'm going to finish it.  i like some of the imagery in these poems but the imagery doesn't seem to connect to a bigger picture to evoke any meaning for me.  i just don't feel like this collection of words is speaking...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15292774">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14042814">
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    <body><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood is one of my favorite fiction writers, and her poetry is kickass, too.  My favorites are &quot;Speeches for Dr Frankenstein&quot; and the CIRCE/MUD poems.]]></body>
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    <review id="36055412">
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    <body><![CDATA[I always seem to read this collection when I'm down.  I think these were her best poems - the ones thereafter are not so thrilling.]]></body>
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    <review id="19611729">
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting collection of Atwood's poems, which are often as strange and thought-provoking as her novels.]]></body>
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    <review id="4680326">
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    <body><![CDATA[Atwood is such a great storyteller that I was surprised at how good much of her poetry is also.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 20 09:08:05 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this up at Barnes and Noble on a whim. I think there'll be some favorites in here...]]></body>
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    <review id="15663847">
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    <body><![CDATA[MArgaret Atwood knows how to cut through the b.s. we wrap around ourselves.]]></body>
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    <review id="4682919">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood is a superstar. Or a superhero. I can't decide.]]></body>
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    <review id="4117978">
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    <body><![CDATA[Atwood is one of my favorite poets. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Siren Song&quot; is one of my favorites!]]></body>
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