Great novels -- Wonderful poetry

[rayheinrich]

And then there's Margaret Atwood, who is both poet and novelist, and damned good at both.

    She's one of my favorites. Not just because of her work, but because of her personality,
how she positions herself as an author. I remember reading an interview with her where
she said that she identified more as a poet than a novelist; that she thought, for the
longest time, that the novels were "slumming", were just a way of supporting herself
so she that she could afford to write poetry. (And her popularity the only way she'd
found to get her poetry published. ) But she went on to say that it was more a
reaction to the novels' popularity, that she had come to accept that the "pop star"
writer she had no respect for was just as much a part of her as the poetry. That the
"human" part of her resided much more in her novels.