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#lethal #quotsyapril18 @TK-421 I had the opposite experience from @GatheringBooks . I knew Atwood as a novelist first, and discovered her poetry through my daughter. We literally had this conversation: Her - I didn‘t know she wrote novels! Me - I didn‘t know she wrote poetry!

#QuotsyApril18 Day 27: Before I knew Margaret Atwood as a novelist, I read her poetry first, this was how I discovered her unsettling writing that unapologetically portrays womanity in all its brutal, #lethal, subjugated, silenced form. She is unparalleled.

My sweetheart started collecting poetry in her youth, and I found this in her bookcase. 1968 Oxford U Press, letter press on paper so thick it feels like a wedding invitation. The poetry is divinely melancholic; "disastrous ice," "abstract hunger," and landladies who own your freedom. Atwood had already won a GG (for Circle Game) by the time this was published. She's an extraordinary writer.

In the darkness the fields
defend themselves with fences
in vain:
everything
is getting in.

#CanadianAuthor #poetry

In that long night
the animals crept out
through the burrows of my blind eyes;
they went away to a different part of the forest,
leaving their masks behind.

-The totems

#poetry #CanadianAuthor

For the #catsoflitsy, some #poetry by #CanadianAuthors. 😊