{"product_id":"the-journals-of-susanna-moodie-poems","title":"The Journals of Susanna Moodie: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis cycle of poems is perhaps the most memorable evocation in modern Canadian literature of the myth of the wilderness  the immigrant experience  and the alienating and schizophrenic effects of the colonial mentality. Since it was first published in 1970 it has not only acquired the stature of a classic but  reprinted many times  become the best-known extended work in Canadian poetry.  Susanna Moodie (1805-85) emigrated from England in 1832 to Upper Canada  where she settled on a farm with her husband. She wrote several books in Canada  notably Roughing It in the Bush  a famous account of pioneering that is still widely read. In poems about the arrival and the Moodies seven years in the bush  which were followed by a more civilized ilfe in Belleville  and about Mrs Moodie in old age and then after death - in the present  when she observes the twentieth century destroying her past and its meaning - Margaret Atwood has created haunting meditations on an English gentlewomans confrontation with the wilderness  and compelling variations on the themes of dislocation and alienation  nature and civilization.  The poems are supplemented by Margaret Atwoods collages and an Afterword in which the poet says: We are all imigrants to this place even if we were born here....\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963351167029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195401697","price":29.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195401691.jpg?v=1770412926","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-journals-of-susanna-moodie-poems","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}