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Power Politics (poetry collection)

1971 poetry collection by Margaret Atwood From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Power Politics (poetry collection)
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Power Politics is a book of poetry by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1971.

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It contains her famous simile:

You fit into me

like a hook into an eye

a fish hook

an open eye

The violent surprise of this poem is typical of Atwood’s imagery.[1]

Gender is a crucial theme in Power Politics. The collection was often dismissed as a poetic version of Women's Lib although Atwood herself rejected the notion that the Women's Movement influenced the conception of Power Politics.[2]

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