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Atwood is "Okay"

What is Atwood? Blunt dissatisfaction … Slyly woven into a hysterical articulacy, flowing, clever, biting, and unforgiving. Atwood's resounding words become the voice of dissatisfaction of any simultaneously subjective and objective mind – a paradox in itself -- united because they aren't content with the small quarters society has so graciously allowed them. In any collection of her works, we're consistently pelted with pebbles and boulders lighting a path in the politically and emotionally fragmented world that leaves so many of us looking for so much more, so many of us asking "Why is this okay?" Atwood's rhetoric challenges the standards – and the double standards – that are so inherently imposed on her ... and us. She struggles. She bites. She spits. She speaks. She takes her graceful leave.
For she draws one consistent answer from the chaos she strangely recreates in her stanzas that contradict the stagnancy around her: seen on the surface, in the......

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