The DoorA book of fifty lucid, urgent poems from internationally acclaimed, award winning, bestselling author Margaret Atwood. In The Door, Margaret Atwood investigates the mysterious writing of poetry itself as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. The Door ranges in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and touches on subjects both personal and political. Brave and compassionate, this collection of reflective poetry

But the father of her child

he’s forced to confront his past and his own mortality in order to repair the crumbling wall between the living and the dead

Oliver Desmarais drops dead in his front yard while hanging Christmas lights

a 640-acre ranch in Northern California

if she feels like it

and in Amazing Grace

Told in interweaving narratives that move between past and present

an archive for younger people

returns with a resonant tale inspired by her own great-great-grandmother’s experiences as a pioneer of women’s medicine in nineteenth-century New York

With the fate of this seemingly ordinary housewife in his hands

when they were Champions again

Leroy Kervin is a 31 year old Iraqi War veteran living with a traumatic brain injury