[Paper Boat 01] • Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023 by Atwood, Margaret -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Also by Margaret Atwood Title Page Copyright Contents Dedication From Double Persephone

Formal Garden Persephone Departing Double Persephone

Uncollected Poems I

The Interior Decorator The Somnambulist The Slideshow Houses

From the Circle Game

This Is a Photograph of Me After the Flood, We In My Ravines Man with a Hook The Circle Game Some Objects of Wood and Stone The Settlers

From the Animals in That Country

The Animals in That Country The Surveyors The Green Man The Landlady At the Tourist Centre in Boston A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum Elegy for the Giant Tortoises Roominghouse, Winter Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein The Reincarnation of Captain Cook

From the Journals of Susanna Moodie

Journal I (1832–1840)

Disembarking at Quebec Further Arrivals The Planters The Two Fires Looking in a Mirror Departure from the Bush

Journal II (1840–1871)

Death of a Young Son by Drowning The Immigrants Dream 1: The Bush Garden Charivari The Double Voice

Journal III (1871–1969)

Daguerreotype Taken in Old Age Visit to Toronto, with Companions Resurrection A Bus Along St. Clair: December

From Procedures for Underground

Eden Is a Zoo Girl and Horse, 1928 The Small Cabin Two Gardens Interview with a Tourist Procedures for Underground Dreams of the Animals A Soul, Geologically Habitation Woman Skating The Creatures of the Zodiac The End of the World: Weekend, Near Toronto Buffalo in Compound: Alberta

Power Politics

He Reappears She Considers Evading Him They Eat Out He Is a Strange Biological Phenomenon Their Attitudes Differ They Travel by Air Small Tactics There Are Better Ways of Doing This He Shifts from East to West They Are Hostile Nations Hesitations Outside the Door He Is Last Seen

From You Are Happy

Newsreel: Man and Firing Squad November Digging Spring Poem Tricks with Mirrors Songs of the Transformed

Pig Song Bull Song Rat Song Crow Song Song of the Worms Owl Song Siren Song Song of the Fox Song of the Hen’s Head Corpse Song

Circe / Mud Poems There Is Only One of Everything

Is / Not Eating Fire Four Auguries Head Against White There Is Only One of Everything Late August

From Two-Headed Poems

Burned Space Foretelling the Future The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart Five Poems for Grandmothers Marrying the Hangman Four Small Elegies Two-Headed Poems The Woman Makes Peace with Her Faulty Heart The Puppet of the Wolf A Red Shirt You Begin

From True Stories

True Stories Landcrab II Postcard Nothing From Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written Earth Variations on the Word Love Sunset II Variation on the Word Sleep

From Interlunar

Snake Poems

Lesson on Snakes Lies About Snakes Bad Mouth Eating Snake The White Snake After Heraclitus

Interlunar

Bedside Lunchtime During a Peak Year in the Yellowjacket Cycle The Saints Hidden Keep A Sunday Drive Orpheus (1) Eurydice One Species of Love, After a Painting by Hieronymus Bosch Giselle in Daytime The Robber Bridegroom Harvest A Massacre Before It Is Heard About Orpheus (2) The Sidewalk The White Cup The Skeleton, Not as an Image of Death A Stone Sumacs A Boat A Blazed Trail Interlunar

From Selected Poems II

Aging Female Poet Sits on the Balcony Porcupine Meditation Aging Female Poet on Laundry Day Nightshade on the Way to School Mothers She How to Tell One Country from Another Machine. Gun. Nest. The Rest Another Elegy Galiano Coast: Four Entrances Squaw Lilies: Some Notes Three Praises Not the Moon

From Morning in the Burned House

You Come Back A Sad Child In the Secular Night Red Fox Miss July Grows Older Manet’s Olympia Ava Gardner Reincarnated as a Magnolia Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing Romantic Cell The Loneliness of the Military Historian Half-Hanged Mary Owl Burning A Pink Hotel in California Man in a Glacier Flowers Two Dreams, 2 The Ottawa River by Night Vermilion Flycatcher, San Pedro River, Arizona The Moment Girl Without Hands

From the Door

Gasoline Mourning for Cats Butterfly My Mother Dwindles… Crickets Heart Sor Juana Works in the Garden Owl and Pussycat, Some Years Later The Singer of Owls The Last Rational Man War Photo The Valley of the Heretics Saint Joan of Arc on a Postcard They Give Evidence Possible Activities Questioning the Dead The Nature of Gothic Boat Song Dutiful Disturbed Earth Reindeer Moss on Granite The Third Age Visits the Arctic You Heard the Man You Love At Brute Point The Door

From Dearly

Late Poems Ghost Cat Passports Coconut The Tin Woodwoman Gets a Massage Princess Clothing Betrayal Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday Cassandra Considers Declining the Gift Shadow Songs for Murdered Sisters The Dear Ones Digging Up the Scythians September Mushrooms A Drone Scans the Wreckage Aflame Update on Werewolves Siren Brooding on Her Eggs Spider Signatures At the Translation Conference Walking in the Madman’s Wood Feather Fatal Light Awareness Improvisation on a First Line by Yeats Plasticene Suite The Twilight of the Gods This Fiord Looks Like a Lake Hayfoot Mr. Lionheart Invisible Man Silver Slippers Within Dearly Blackberries

Uncollected Poems II

Paper Boat Ah People Small Book Effigy of a Poet, in a Park Three-Eyes Old Letters Discovered Another Joan of Arc Poem Ariadne Sends a Message Baritones Opera Villains Thirty Thriller Suite Watchman The Gods Like the Old Songs The Disasters of War: A Sequel Muddier My Grade Five Class Reciting “in Flanders Fields,” Remembrance Day The Muse of Sorrow Message on a Well Rim: Aigues-Mortes Tell Me Something Good Pyjamas with Sheep on Them Bad Heart Scattering Wood In Pain Lucky Cleaning Out the Fridge Grace Before Evening Meal Now

Acknowledgements Credits Index of Titles and First Lines A Note About the Author