Handwriting - Poems (Paperback)

"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.

General

Imprint:	Random House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Vintage International
Release date:	March 2000
First published:	March 2000
Authors:	Michael Ondaatje
Dimensions:	210 x 127 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	78
ISBN-13:	978-0-375-70541-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-375-70541-4
Barcode:	9780375705410

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