Handwriting Paperback - 2000
by Michael Ondaatje
Drawing on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories, Ondaatje presents his first new book of poems since "The Cinnamon Peeler, " weaving a rich tapestry of images that evoke desire for--and anguish over--scents and gestures of lost loves, homes, and language.
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The exquisite poems collected in Handwriting -- Michael Ondaatje's first book of new poems since The Cinnamon Peeler -- recall "the vista of a life". Drawing on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories of Sri Lank, Ondaatje weaves a rich tapestry of images that evoke desire for -- and anguish over -- scents and gestures of lost loves, homes, and language. The verses, at turns spare and luminous, demonstrate the poet's unique artistry as he contemplates "the mirror world of art" in a time before books, when "handwriting occurred on waves, / on leaves, the scripts of smoke", recounts medieval monks "burying the Buddha in stone" amid the battle fire of war, 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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- Title Handwriting
- Author Michael Ondaatje
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date March 14, 2000
- ISBN 9780375705410 / 0375705414
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 8.11 x 5.23 x 0.3 in (20.60 x 13.28 x 0.76 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Library of Congress subjects Sri Lanka, Sri Lankans - Canada
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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- New York Times, 03/26/2000, Page 32
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