Handwriting: Poems.
by Ondaatje, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0771068778
- ISBN 13
- 9780771068775
- Seller
-
Langley, Washington, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Toronto:: McClelland & Stewart,, 1998.. First Printing of the First Canadian Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. The 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."
Synopsis
Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Canada in 1962. He lives in Toronto. Michael Ondaatje's The Cinnamon Peeler , The English Patient , In the Skin of a Lion , Running in the Family , Coming through Slaughter , and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid are available in Vintage paperback.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Gregor Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28666
- Title
- Handwriting: Poems.
- Author
- Ondaatje, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Canadian Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0771068778
- ISBN 13
- 9780771068775
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart,
- Place of Publication
- Toronto:
- Date Published
- 1998.
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- POETRY;
Terms of Sale
Gregor Rare Books
All items are first US or UK printings unless otherwise noted. Signatures are guaranteed authentic. Items are subject to prior sale and returnable within 7 days of receipt if not as described. We accept all major credit cards and personal checks. Postage is extra. We ship Priority insured mail: $8.00 for the first item and $4.00 for each additional. International shipping will be billed at cost. Washington State residents will be charged 8.4% sales tax.
About the Seller
Gregor Rare Books
About Gregor Rare Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...