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Handwriting

"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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 96
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780375705410
  • Genres
  • poetry, canada, fiction, asia, writing
  • Release date
  • 2000