Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Distance of a Shout: Selected Poems

The Distance of a Shout: Selected Poems

Ondaatje, Michael

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 0593805011
ISBN13: 9780593805015
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Feb 24 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.01
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.33 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
In The Distance of a Shout, Michael Ondaatje has assembled some of his finest poems into a singular poetic memoir that invokes the arc of his own journey over fifty years.

Michael Ondaatje remains our very best poet-turned-novelist. . . . [he] has always observed the world with a balanced mix of delight, awe, and humor, deadly serious about matters of the heart without ever taking himself too seriously. --Lit Hub

Through poems that grow out of his profound understanding of the subtle complexities of life and relationships, of how we lose and find ourselves, Michael Ondaatje navigates his own past, beginning with memories of distant landscapes, remembrances of his childhood in Sri Lanka and his eccentric family, to his life in rural southern Ontario with its beloved rivers, celebrations of admired fellow travellers and treasured friends, the close ties of children. Ondaatje is one of the great poets of love, and here we follow him through the exhilarations of youth, into that storm of music and the passionate swerves of longing and desire, until we reach the calm of that moment when only a cloud's reflection holding you up // You swim into late afternoon.

The Distance of a Shout offers us a glimpse into the life and art of one of our most cherished poets and novelists--a reminder itself of the power of great poetry to shine a light on living.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Ondaatje, Michael

View All

Also in

General Poetry

View All