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Handwriting

Handwriting

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0375705414
ISBN13: 9780375705410
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Mar 14 2000
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.23 Depth: 8.11
Language: English
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.

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