Handwriting
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- Synopsis
- "Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon." --NewsdayHandwriting 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
- Copyright:
- 1998
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307948823
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780375705410
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 07/27/11
- Copyrighted By:
- Michael Ondaatje
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry, Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.