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The Circle Game: Poems
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author),
Sherrill Grace
The appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in later works, such as Power Politics, Bodily Harm, and Alias Grace. Atwood writes compassionately about the risks of love...more
Paperback, 96 pages
Published
June 1st 1998
by House of Anansi Press
(first published 1966)
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I think this is a gorgeous collection, one found by me only after reading most of Atwood's novels. While I like many of her novels (and truly love a few), THE CIRCLE GAME (1966) would have to be one my favorite Atwood works (the other being THE HANDMAID'S TALE). What is revealed in the simplicity of her verse moves me every time. "Letters, Towards and Away" is beautiful with its reluctant hope of love ... while other pieces are affecting as they illuminate the deterioration of the same emotion....more
I recognize its greatness, and genuinely enjoyed several of the poems, but it's not a personal favorite.
weird. definitely, definitely, weird.
really didn't understand much!
I can see why this won the Governor General's Award. I was both inspired and entertained, and I generally can't stand reading other people's poetry. Wonderful.
I bought it for the first poem in the book, This is a Photograph of Me and then kept reading. It's another nightstand read that I like to keep close by.
Lovely, sharp, consistent voice and consistently surprised.
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Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.
Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, childr...more
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