The Cinnamon Peeler

Author: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030794896X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
Michael Ondaatje’s selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist.

Handwriting

Author: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030794882X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 71

Book Description
"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.

Running in the Family

Author: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307776646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.

Secular Love

Author: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393019919
Category : Canadian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description

The Cat's Table

Author: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 030740143X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
From Michael Ondaatje: an electrifying novel, by turns thrilling and deeply moving—one of his most vividly rendered and compelling works of fiction to date. In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly "Cat's Table" with an eccentric and unforgettable group of grownups and two other boys. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys find themselves immersed in the worlds and stories of the adults around them. At night they spy on a shackled prisoner—his crime and fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. Looking back from deep within adulthood, and gradually moving back and forth from the decks and holds of the ship to the years that follow the narrator unfolds a spellbinding and layered tale about the magical, often forbidden discoveries of childhood and the burdens of earned understanding, about a life-long journey that began unexpectedly with a sea voyage.

Digging Into Literature

Author: Joanna Wolfe
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319020275
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 451

Book Description
Digging Into Literature reveals the critical strategies that any college student can use for reading, analyzing, and writing about literary texts. It is based on a groundbreaking study of the successful interpretive and argumentative moves of more than a thousand professional and student essays. Full of practical charts and summaries, with plenty of exercises and activities for trying out the strategies, the book convincingly reveals that while great literature is profoundly and endlessly complex, writing cogent and effective essays about it doesn’t have to be.

In the Skin of a Lion

Author: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307776638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.

The Honey Gatherers

Author: Maura Dooley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
Aims to describe the search, the sweetness, the sting and the death of love. This anthology's title is taken from a phrase in Michael Ondaatje's The Cinnamon Peeler, a poem which describes the need to be marked and marked out, by love.

Hardheaded Weather

Author: Cornelius Eady
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399154850
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
A new volume of poetic works by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Award-winning author of Brutal Imagination reflects on such topics as his transition from urban renter to non-plussed rural homeowner, the sobering influence of war, and the intimation of the writer's own mortality. Simultaneous.

There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Selected and new poems offer glimpses of a private world in which images of horror are viewed through mirrors and prisms and in which madmen and animals inhabit a landscape of fearful natural beauty.