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Handwriting : poems
- Title
- Handwriting : poems / Michael Ondaatje.
- Author
- Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
- Publication
- New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1999.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR9199.3.O5 H36 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 78 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler. It is a collection of exquisitely crafted poems of delicacy and power - poems about love, landscape, and the sweep of history set in the poet's first home, Sri Lanka." "The falling away of culture is juxtaposed with an individual's sense of loss, grief, and remembrance, as Ondaatje weaves a rich tapestry of images - the unburial of stone Buddhas, a family of stilt-walkers crossing a field, the pattern of teeth marks on skin drawn by a monk from memory."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Contents
- A Gentleman Compares His Virtue ... -- The Distance of a Shout -- Buried -- The Brother Thief -- To Anuradhapura -- The First Rule of Sinhalese Architecture -- The Medieval Coast -- Buried 2 -- The Nine Sentiments -- Flight -- Wells -- The Siyabaslakara -- Driving with Dominic ... -- Death at Kataragama -- The Great Tree -- The Story -- House on a Red Cliff -- Step -- Last Ink.
- ISBN
- 0375405593
- 9780375405594
- 037570535X (pbk.)
- 9780375705359 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 98041731
- OCLC
- ocm39747192
- 39747192
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries