The Return of Poetry Friday

[goddessdster]

from Girl Without Hands by Margaret Atwood

Then there's the girl, in the white dress,

meaning purity, or the failure

to be any colour. She has no hands, it's true.

The scream that happened to the air

when they were taken off

surrounds her now like an aureole

of hot sand, of no sound.

Everything has bled out of her.

(Read the entire poem

Comments

[random_nexus]

Ooh, I like the notion of Poetry Friday! Yay!

[goddessdster]

Pass it on!

[lynnez59]

I have a book of Atwood's poems. I'll have to check and see if this is in that. I do enjoy her writing. Her novel "Alias Grace" is an interesting story.

[goddessdster]

Interestingly, while Alias Grace was lauded, it was my least favorite Atwood. I think because it's historical fiction and I'm very picky about that.

I recommend The Edible Woman, Handmaid's Tale (of course), and Cat's Eye for novels. Her short story collections are amazing as well.

[sanguine_piskie]

My favorite Atwood novel is the Handmaid's Tale. And my favorite Atwood poem is:

You fit into me
Like a hook into an Eye

A fish hook
an open eye

[aeniron]

I have Lady Oracle but haven't picked it up yet. Edible woman sort of made me uncomfortable, but the ending was unbeatable