Double Persephone

{{Short description|Book by Margaret Atwood}}

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| author = Margaret Atwood

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| country = Canadian

| language = English

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| genre = Poetry

| release_date = 1961

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Double Persephone is a self-published poetry collection written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood in 1961.{{cite web | url=http://marg09.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/tools-of-change-the-publishing-pie-february-15-2011/ | title=Tools of Change: The Publishing Pie, February 15, 2011 | publisher=Wordpress | date=20 February 2011 | accessdate=October 8, 2011 | author=Atwood, Margaret}} Atwood handset the book herself with a flat bed press, designed the cover with linoblocks, and only made 220 copies.{{cite conference | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6iMBf6Ddjk#t=784s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211219/-6iMBf6Ddjk |archive-date=2021-12-19 |url-status=live| title=The Publishing Pie: An Author's View | publisher=O'Reilly Media | accessdate=October 8, 2011 | author=Atwood, Margaret |date=February 2011 | conference=Tools of Change for Publishing Conference | location=New York}}{{cbignore}} It was the first publication released by Atwood, and comprises seven poems: "Formal Garden", "Pastoral", "Iconic Landscape", "Persephone Departing", "Chthonic Love", "Her Song", "and "Double Persephone".{{cite journal | url=http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/7863/8920 | title=Atwood's Gorgon Touch | author=Davey, Frank | journal=Studies in Canadian Literature | year=1997 | volume=2 | issue=2}}

Atwood followed up the collection with another book of poetry released in 1964, The Circle Game.

The collection won the EJ Pratt medal.{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/margaret-atwood|title=Margaret Atwood|date=21 December 2021}}