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Overview
Double Persephone is a poetry collection written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood in 1961. Atwood first came to public attention as a poet in the 1960s with her collections Double Persephone (1961), winner of the E.J. Pratt Medal. Atwood followed up the collection with another book of poetry released in 1964. In the seven books of poems which lie between these passages, this opposition between the static, the mythological, or the sculptural and the kinetic, the actual, or the temporal has been a central concern. In Double Persephone a direct link is visible between the formal garden inhabited by her personae and the formalism of the writing. Atwood exercises her own "gorgon touch" here – substituting formal rhythms and language for the colloquial language of historical time and replacing temporal characters with pastoral and mythological ones. Double Persephone dramatizes the contrasts between life and art, as well as natural and human creations

Content
omprises seven poems: "Formal Garden", "Pastoral", "Iconic Landscape", "Persephone Departing", "Chthonic Love", "Her Song", "and "Double Persephone".

The opening poem of Double Persephone, "Formal Garden," a "girl with the gorgon touch" walks through the title location searching for "a living wrist and arm", but all she finds is a "a line of statues" with "marble flesh. The girl apparently has traits similar to Medusa, who could turn men to stone by glancing upon them.