Handwriting : Poems
By Michael Ondaatje"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon." --Newsday Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes, and language, as the poet contemplates scents and gestures and evokes a time when "handwriting occurred on waves, / on leaves, the scripts of smoke" and remembers a woman's "laughter with its / intake of breath. Uhh huh." Crafted with lyrical delicacy and seductive power, Handwriting reminds us of Michael Ondaatje's stature as one of the finest poets writing today.
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Book details
- Paperback
- 96 pages
- English
- 0375705414
- 9780375705410
About Michael Ondaatje
he was born to a burgher family of dutch-tamil-sinhalese-portuguese origin. he moved to england with his mother in 1954. after relocating to canada in 1962 Read More about Michael Ondaatje
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