Eating Fire Av Margaret Atwood

<p><b>From the author of <i>The Handmaid''s Tale </i>and <i>Dearly </i></b><br><b><i><br>I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.</i></b><br><br><i>Eating Fire </i>brings together three of Margaret''s Atwood''s key poetry collections: <i>Poems 1965-1975</i>, <i>Poems 1976-1986</i> and <i>Morning in the Burned House</i>.<br><br> The landscape of Atwood''s poetry is one of bus trips and postcards, wilderness, glass, and fires both savage and tender. Atwood''s signature themes resound throughout all of them: the politics of sex, the darkness at the heart of every fairytale, and the pain - and triumph - of existing as a woman. <br><br><b>* * * <br></b><br>''Atwood is the quiet Mata Hari, the mysterious, violent figure . . . who pits herself against the ordered too-clean world like an arsonist'' - <b>Michael Ondaatje</b><br><br>''Detached, ironic, loving by turns . . . poems that sing off the page and sting'' - <b>Michèle Roberts</b></p>