Handwriting Poems |
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Author:
| Ondaatje, Michael |
Series title: | Vintage International Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-375-70541-0 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2000 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Vintage |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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"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...
More Description"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.