false 9 285 268 true 5832108 read 2 true 622747 currently-reading 15 true 622746 to-read 96 false 629357 fantasy 39 false 625313 poetry 28 false 631376 mythology 17 false 645727 shorts 13 false 631365 feminism 12 false 645718 darkhorror 11 false 629351 writingbooks 10 false 631326 spirituality 10 false 645717 fairytales 6 false 631371 biographies 5 false 631331 philosophy 4 false 637261 twisted 4 false 638158 classic 3 false 637281 erotica 3 false 631398 kids 3 false 631334 fashion 1 false 630098 chicklit 1 false 633551 re-reading 0 false 2030794 want-to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77130888 Out of the Shadows (Paperback) by Catherine Camden-pratt
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Rabbit Hole - favorite poem in this collection. If you skim the poems they can't hurt you - but if you *really* read be prepared to bleed. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75748947 Taking Pictures (Hardcover) by Anne Enright
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Margaret Atwood's poetry was inserted (like the cutting of a plant) beneath my skin many years ago. Her poems took root in fertile soil and flourished.

Eating Fire, is actually three collections of poems; Poems 1965-1975, Poems 1976-1886 and Morning in the Burned House. I own all three independently, but this is the book, the collection, I drag around with me in my bag.

These are the poems I read when I feel dry, when I am not sure what a poet's voice sounds like, or what a poem looks like. It also doesn't hurt that Atwood is a kinswoman, a Canadian. When I have felt adrift, her poems have been my roots.

Consider the following excerpt.

Notes Towards A Poem That Can Never Be Written

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This is the place
you would rather not know about,
this is the place that will inhabit you,
this is the place you cannot imagine,
this is the place that will finally defeat you

where the word why shrivels and empties
itself. This is famine.


There is no famine in this collection. There is much to love in this book, so I will limit myself to a couple of poems I love.

I *LOVE* Half Hanged Mary, and all the snake poems, but especially Psalm to a Snake. Oh and the above Notes Towards A Poem That Can Never Be Written... hmmm ... and Power Politics ... and, and, and ....

I am by no means an unbiased reviewer - more a passionate follower.

If you haven't .... do.

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