True Stories (poetry collection)

True Stories is a collection of poetry by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1981.

The collection is dedicated to poet Carolyn Forché with whom Atwood had discussed her trip to El Salvador as a member of Amnesty International, and the poems both directly and indirectly discuss her views regarding human rights in third-world nations.

[1] The poems of True Stories confront the nature of poetry, question whether they may be conventionally defined as poetry.

They diverge from the themes established in her previous poetry; they explore themes of atrocity, of war and torture.

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