{"product_id":"handwriting-isbn-9780375705410","title":"Handwriting","description":"\"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon.\" --\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHandwriting\u003c\/b\u003e is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since \u003cb\u003eThe Cinnamon Peeler\u003c\/b\u003e. 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrafted with lyrical delicacy and seductive power, \u003cb\u003eHandwriting\u003c\/b\u003e reminds us of Michael Ondaatje's stature as one of the finest poets writing today.\"Richly sensual images.... [Ondaatje] contracts the narrative to a few concrete images, giving his verse a mysterious reticence.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poems that are virtual hybrids of the contemporary and the ancient.\" --\u003ci\u003eBoston Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Smooth poetic lines.... Another finely polished Ondaatje gem.\" -- \u003ci\u003eTime Out-New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Extremely beautiful.\" --Robert Hass, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003eMichael Ondaatje is the author of three previous novels, a memoir and eleven books of poetry.  His novel \u003cb\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/b\u003e won the Booker Prize. Born in Sri Lanka, he moved to Canada in 1962 and now lives in Toronto.In the dry lands\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eevery few miles, moving north,\u003cbr\u003eanother roadside Ganesh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStraw figures\u003cbr\u003eon bamboo scaffolds\u003cbr\u003eto advertise a family\u003cbr\u003eof stilt-walkers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMen twenty feet high\u003cbr\u003ewalking over fields\u003cbr\u003ecrossing the thin road\u003cbr\u003ewith their minimal arms\u003cbr\u003eand \"lying legs\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dance of tall men\u003cbr\u003ewith the movement of prehistoric birds\u003cbr\u003ein practice before they alight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo men become gods\u003cbr\u003ein the small village\u003cbr\u003eof Ilukwewa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGanesh in pink,\u003cbr\u003e                         in yellow,\u003cbr\u003ein elephant darkness\u003cbr\u003eHis simplest shrine\u003cbr\u003ea drawing of him\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elime chalk\u003cbr\u003eon a grey slate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll this glory\u003cbr\u003epreparing us for Anuradhapura\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eits night faith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA city with the lap\u003cbr\u003eand spell of a river\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamilies below trees\u003cbr\u003earound the heart of a fire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003etributaries\u003cbr\u003efrom the small villages\u003cbr\u003eof the dry zone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCircling the dagoba\u003cbr\u003ein a clockwise hum and chant,\u003cbr\u003ebowls of lit coal\u003cbr\u003eabove their heads\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewhispering bare feet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur flutter and drift\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ein the tow of this riverPoems","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303459213541,"sku":"NP9780375705410","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375705410.jpg?v=1767728659","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/handwriting-isbn-9780375705410","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}