Power Politics

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Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. Thirty years later it still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple and universal. Clear, direct, wry, unrelenting, Atwood's poetic powers are honed to perfection ...
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Overview

Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. Thirty years later it still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple and universal. Clear, direct, wry, unrelenting, Atwood's poetic powers are honed to perfection in this important early work.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780887845796
  • Publisher: House of Anansi Press
  • Publication date: 6/1/1996
  • Edition description: Second Edition
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 80
  • Sales rank: 1,290,121
  • Product dimensions: 5.01 (w) x 7.99 (h) x 0.26 (d)

Meet the Author

Margaret  Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Accomplished in equal measure as a poet, novelist, and essayist, Margaret Atwood is as much a dazzling storyteller as she is a committed feminist. Her novels and stories educate as much as they entertain, but without ever veering into dogmatism.

Biography

When Margaret Atwood announced to her friends that she wanted to be a writer, she was only 16 years old. It was Canada. It was the 1950s. No one knew what to think. Nonetheless, Atwood began her writing career as a poet. Published In 1964 while she was still a student at Harvard, her second poetry anthology, The Circle Game, was awarded the Governor General's Award, one of Canada's most esteemed literary prizes. Since then, Atwood has gone on to publish many more volumes of poetry (as well as literary criticism, essays, and short stories), but it is her novels for which she is best known.

Atwood's first foray into fiction was 1966's The Edible Woman, an arresting story about a woman who stops eating because she feels her life is consuming her. Grabbing the attention of critics, who applauded its startlingly original premise, the novel explored feminist themes Atwood has revisited time and time again during her long, prolific literary career. She is famous for strong, compelling female protagonists -- from the breast cancer survivor in Bodily Harm to the rueful artist in Cat's Eye to the fatefully intertwined sisters in her Booker Prize-winning novel The Blind Asassin.

Perhaps Atwood's most legendary character is Offred, the tragic "breeder" in what is arguably her most famous book, 1985's The Handmaid's Tale. Part fable, part science fiction, and part dystopian nightmare, this novel presented a harrowing vision of women's lives in an oppressive futuristic society. The Washington Post compared it (favorably) to George Orwell's iconic 1984.

As if her status as a multi-award-winning, triple-threat writer (fiction, poetry, and essays) were not enough, Atwood has also produced several children's books, including Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995) and Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003) -- delicious alliterative delights that introduce a wealth of new vocabulary to young readers.

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    1. Hometown:
      Toronto, Ontario
    1. Date of Birth:
      November 18, 1939
    2. Place of Birth:
      Ottawa, Ontario
    1. Education:
      B.A., University of Toronto, 1961; M.A. Radcliffe, 1962; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1967
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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 18, 2013

    Bio

    Name: Nick. Age: 16. Personality: Goth, emotionless. Weapon: Uses dual assassin blades. Clothing: Black, jeans, black hoodie, black t-shirt, silver ear stud in left ear. Appearance: Has a tan, black hair, serious face. Crush: none
    Powers: Can summon undead, has a skeletical dragon, night vision.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 14, 2013

    Raven

    Name: Raven~•~Height: 5'4"~•~Age: ?, Looks about 15~•~Skin Color: Light Grey~•~Hair: Short, Lavender~•~Eye Color: Indigo~•~ Wears: Dark blue cloak and hood, grey-blue boots, long sleeved blue leotard thing with belt made of the same red/gold jewls as the gem on her Anja Chakra~•~Personality: Emotionless as possible at all times, and only trusts her closest friends~•~Powers: Empathy, Demonic Transformation, Astral Projection, Teleportation, Dementional Teleportation, Healing, Flight, Levitation, Sorcery, Telepathy, Telekenisis, Energy-Time-Emotion-Darkness Manipulation, Mind Wiping, Hand-to-hand Combat. Powers are amplified the more emotion she feels.~•~ Team: Teen Titans~•~

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 6, 2013

    To below

    Well now I KNOW YOUR SECRET IM CALLING SLENDER MAN OH NO O HES HERE HYYHH ——+—— BBBB H /\

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 17, 2013

    Eamon to any one that is good with girls!

    HELP!!! My gf thinks im cheating on her when i get off my nook
    some one comes in and tries to make amber dump me

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 17, 2013

    Tessvto eamon

    Theres really noting U can do.but I can do someting bout it.i will leave cuz ofeosly she thinks u nd me r to close.so i will go.bye.lol.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 7, 2013

    To below

    Niether of them are my names..... why are you calling slender man?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 12, 2013

    Leah

    Name: Leah Anglezarke~•~Age: 17~•~Appearence: Straight black hair with purple streaks, violet eyes with a dark blue ring around her iris and pupil, pale.~•~Personality: If you dont know her well she is reclusive, untrusting, quiet, slightly shy, sad, can be intimidating at times... if you do know her well shes funny, loyal, still can be sad, bad-tempered most of the time, but still a great person~•~Ability: Rather not say... if you ask her youll find out the hard way and its not good at all~•~Other: Came from a similar rp, someone attempted to kill her when she encountered them, and everything else is stuff you cant know

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 13, 2013

    Fire

    Age:18 Height:5'8" Powers: heat vision,lazer fingers, control over fire, time travel, and teleportation Apperance: All black clothes. Slim.Dark brown hair. Brown eyes. Black with beater. Black n blue Reckless hat. Muscular. Personality: Goth ( not hardcore kind). Sweet n nice. Over protective to gf. Instinct to protect anyone in danger. Likes to be a loner/hang by self. Friends: Doesnt really have any. Crush: None. Doesnt know any girls that well. Likes: Carving wooden statues. Drawing. Cutting self when really down. Dislikes: Rude people. Rude animals. Anything rude. Other: Doesnt really feel emotion.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 13, 2013

    Kyara's bio

    Name: Kyara Meru. She is an anthro-tanuki, with powers of whatever to do with her tail and transfromation. Her talent is fun and candy. Appearance: shoulder-length caramel brown hair with ears poking out of it. Her eyes are goldish-brown, not quite amber. Has a brown striped tail, duh. Relationship: looking. History: too lazy to make up. Personality: friendly, funny, but can be deadly when angered. Weapons: two twin katanas that can cut stuff like butter. She also uses ninja stars sometimes and she is very good at kung fu and punching stuff. Likes: Food.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 14, 2013

    STARK TO ALLL!

    I'M LOCKED OUT OF RESULTS ONE THREE AND FOUR!! PLEASE MOVE TO "NEW YORK CITY" FIRST RESULT PLEASE!! If anyone sees this....

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 10, 2013

    Nathan Carr a.k.a. Shift

    -Name- Nathan Carr -Codename- Shift -Age- 21 -Appearance- Dark brown hair, tall, muscular, commonly found wearing a dark black t-shirt with the word INSANITY on it. -Powers- Ha the ability to morph his arms into any weapon or tool needed. -History- After being blamed for the murder of his best friend he was sent to an underground asylum for insane teenagers. He was sent to a room one day for testing. He wa injected with a serum that gave him his powers. But thats not the onl thing the serum did. It also gave him another personality. It only come out in times of extreme anger. Afer he wa injected he broke from his estraints and killed the people operating on him. He escaped the asylum and went into hiding for seven years hiding in abandoned houses and stores. He eventually encountered Nick Fury and was told to join SHIELD. He accepted the offer and is now working for them.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 10, 2013

    Diana

    Name: Diana Hawkins•Age: 20•Gender: Female•Profession: Scientist•Powers: Can absorb Dark Matter through her hands and shoot it out at opponents•Weapons:Two twin pistols• Hair color: Black and wavy•Eye color: Light green• Apparel: sort of like Professor Fury's clothes•Other:Friendly and talkative. Serious when it comes to battle•
    ~•Di•~

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 10, 2013

    Russia

    Russia- yes maybe strange name but shes proud of it. Gender: female. Look: tall anf muscular. Brown hair and blue eyes. Power: can call anything from siberia. For instance siberian tiger or a hisky. Also can transform into these animals. Relationships: none. Active: well im not really suppose to rp...but i am very active at night and can mage to squeeze in a few posts during the day.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 10, 2013

    Sariah

    Im 17 and i have long black hair and green eyes. I have a killing smile. Im 5'3 and im skiny but very curvy. I can make people do things by messing with their mind and my beauty is as deadly as a bomb.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 13, 2013

    Shade(UDATED)

    Name:Shade Apperance:Dark purple hair that come ast her shoulder blades gray eys black runes on her left arm (thnx Seliena) leather pants jacket n boots for a shirt she wears a pink tank top Age:15 Height:5'5" Powers:She has muntant powers n does magic but she combines these two together Werid Things:She likes walkin up walls n standin on them like they r the floor this also goes for the ceilin

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 13, 2013

    Mark

    Age 21 powers: magic hypnosis time travel and transformation

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 12, 2013

    Platanium

    Name: Platanium Vienna, but called the Offspring by others in war ~••~ Looks: dark hair like Black Widows except dark brown and a when left alone, wavy (just wavy, not crinched) and goes to her chest, gray eyes, wears a suit simaliar to Black Widows except has a special Tron-like lighting, seamless and laceless combat boots with a wifi chip inside ~••~ Weapons and Specialties: extreme accuracy better than all those other good accuracy people that allows her to aim for the closest answer, makes her faster if that makes sense, a black Replica of Katniss's bow that has a gold button and when u press it, the bow and arrow grows small, S.H.I.E.L.D. prodigy, good with technology, extremely intellegent, a world class spy that works for SHIELD, speaks over 50 languages, including alien, combat specialty, a dagger or knife on her arm, a gun on each thigh holder ~••~ Age: 17, but looks 18 ~••~ Parents: unknown ~••~ Powers: none ~••~ Boufriend of Crush: no time ~••~ Friends: prefers to work alone ~••~ Enemies: the villians, the cruel world ~••~ Other: I look and act like Black Widow and Hawkeye's kids, BUT I AM NOT. Repeat: Not. Dont trust me in the shadows.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 14, 2013

    Rasha (Updated)

    Name: Rasha Apperance: Black hair, Dark green eyes. Tradtional Saiyan suit. Does wear the white gloves. Wraps her arms with black gauze.Wears black combat boots. Has a tail that has dark fur. Weapons: Rumored to have three daggers. Mostly hand to hand combat. Powers: Ki, Can sence others emotions, Saiyan SSJ transformations, She can go into a Blood Rage or Battle Fury. Personality: Quite, Became more colder recently due to events, Does not like to be touched, Very anti-social. Can be very tempermentalHistory: Refusal to speak of it. Other: Has gone MIA. Assumed Kidnapping.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 8, 2013

    Webber

    Name:Webber(or Web) Looks:5'4",green eyes, blonde hair, black clothes with silver spider in the middle of my shirt. Personality:nice, kind, friendly. Powers: Able to shoot webs and control spiders.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 13, 2013

    Beast Boy

    Name:look up, Appearance: a black tight suit with a large purple T-like shape across the whole front,gloves, and black boots with a silver disc-like ring at the top of them, he is green and has one large fang that is always visible even when his mouth is closed, Personality: fun loving, loyal,funny,can be mischevious but usually in all fun intentions, a good fighter and teammate, Powers: he can change into any creature at will, but will always remain a shade of green, Team: Teen Titans, including Raven,Starfire,Robin, and Cyborg, Crush: yeah maybe, Other: enjoys going through Raven's stuff despite the over all consequence to be payed, likes to make her smile, likes to make everyone smile, and well just get to meet him you'll get his tendancies,

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