Power politics

Once more I’ve been invited by Rocco publisher in Brazil to create a cover book for the wonderful Margaret Atwood. This time, a reedition of “Power Politics” first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political, and the mythic. Here Atwood makes us realize that we may think our own personal dichotomies are unique, but really they are multiple, universal. Clear, direct, wry, unrelenting. Atwood's poetic powers are honed to perfection in this important early work. Here the cover and the different studies, the editor Tiago Lyra and I discussed a lot about how she uses and deconstructed Tarot symbols. We decided to work with different options for this cover book, using surreal references in the poems.