Zenda Libros has just published a bilingual edition of some poems included in Power Politics, which she wrote in 1971.They have different lengths and some can be used in the classroom:
https://www.zendalibros.com/5-poemas-de-posturas-politicas-de-margaret-atwood/
These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Power Politics refers to what happens between two people, in a personal relationship. Is there power and politics in a love story? And if so, why is there?
As Margaret Atwood effectively writes, “If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?”
The idea of an unbalanced relationship, why power may be given up to the other person are versed about in Power Politics.
The violent surprise of this poem is typical of Atwood’s imagery, and it contains her famous simile:
You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
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