Power Politics (poetry collection)

Power Politics
	First edition
Author	Margaret Atwood
Language	English
Publication date	1971
Publication place	US
Media type	Print

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

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]

Notes

^ Montagnes, Anne (Oct 4, 1980), "Violence and humor in Margaret Atwood and poets flabby in comparison", The Globe and Mail, pp. E. 14
^ Reingard M. Nischik. Engendering genre: the works of Margaret Atwood. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2009, p. 19, ISBN 978-0-7766-0724-5.

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[1] Montagnes, Anne (Oct 4, 1980), "Violence and humor in Margaret Atwood and poets flabby in comparison", The Globe and Mail, pp. E. 14

[2] Reingard M. Nischik. Engendering genre: the works of Margaret Atwood. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2009, p. 19, ISBN 978-0-7766-0724-5.

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v t e Works by Margaret Atwood
Novels	The Edible Woman (1969) Surfacing (1972) Lady Oracle (1976) Life Before Man (1979) Bodily Harm (1981) The Handmaid's Tale (1985) Cat's Eye (1988) The Robber Bride (1993) Alias Grace (1996) The Blind Assassin (2000) Oryx and Crake (2003) The Penelopiad (2005) The Year of the Flood (2009) MaddAddam (2013) The Heart Goes Last (2015) Hag-Seed (2016) The Testaments (2019)
Short fiction collections	Dancing Girls (1977) Murder in the Dark (1983) Bluebeard's Egg (1983) Wilderness Tips (1991) Good Bones (1992) Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994) The Labrador Fiasco (1996) The Tent (2006) Moral Disorder (2006) Stone Mattress (2014) Old Babes in the Wood (2023)
Short stories	"Rape Fantasies" (1977) "The Resplendent Quetzal" (1977) "Happy Endings" (1983) "Unearthing Suite" (1983) "Freeforall" (1986)
Poetry collections	Double Persephone (1961) The Circle Game (1964) Expeditions (1965) Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966) The Animals in That Country (1968) The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970) Procedures for Underground (1970) Power Politics (1971) You Are Happy (1974) Two-Headed Poems (1978) True Stories (1981) Interlunar (1984) Morning in the Burned House (1995) The Door (2007) Dearly (2020)
Non-fiction	Survival (1972) Negotiating with the Dead (2002) Writing with Intent (2005) Payback (2008) Burning Questions (2022)
Film and television	Heaven on Earth (1987)