''Procedures for Underground'' is a book of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

written by

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

author Margaret Atwood. It was published in hardcover by

Little, Brown and Company Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emily ...

in 1970, and in paperback by both Little, Brown and Company and Oxford University Press, Canada in 1971. The poems of ''Procedures for Underground'' explore the territory of the psyche, evoking mythological archetypes, subconscious experience, and personal obsessions. This space of epiphanies and metamorphosis is, for Atwood, the "underground."

References

Google Booksearch Scan of ''Major Canadian Authors'' by David Stouck, which references this collection
Honnighausen, Lother. “Margaret Atwood’s Poetry 1966-1995” in ''Margaret Atwood Works and Impact''. Toronto: Anansi, 2002, 97-119.

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