Margaret Atwood
Regarded as one of Canada’s finest living writers, Margaret Atwood is a poet, novelist, story writer, essayist, and environmental activist. Her books have received critical acclaim in the United States, Europe, and her native Canada, and she has received numerous literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Governor General’s Award, twice. Atwood’s critical popularity is matched by her popularity with readers; her books are regularly bestsellers and her novels have been adapted into popular movies and television series.
CPC Readings
Friday, January 16, 1976
Museum of Contemporary Art
Poetry by Margaret Atwood
For Archeologists Continue reading
Deep under, far back
the early horses run
on rock / the buffalo, the deer
the other animals (extinct)
run with spears in their backs
The Animals in that country Continue reading
In that country the animals
have the faces of people:
the ceremonial
cats possessing the streets
the fox run
politely to earth, the huntsmen
standing around him, fixed
in their tapestry of manners