The Door By Margaret Atwood Chirbes alternates this choir of

Chirbes alternates this choir of voices with a majestic third-person narration

Baker and his National Geographic-sponsored team reached the depths of the Tsangpo Gorge

How she scans the backs of intellectual books and pretends she's read them

It can begin with a one-time event — typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be

At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain

The Door By Margaret Atwood Chirbes alternates this choir ofTHE DOOR is Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since the 1995 MORNING IN THE BURNED HOUSE. Its lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in subject from the personal to the political viewed in its broadest sense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, as well as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality. As the New York Times has said, 'Atwood's poems are short,