HANDWRITING

    A book of poems, this is Michael Ondaatje's first since "The Cinnamon Peeler". The poems are about love, history and landscape that transport us with imagery to the poet's first home, Sri Lanka. They are reminiscent both of Japanese Haiku and of the ornately simple poetry of India, Persia and China. They combine the occasional familiar image of thought with others far more exotic, weaving in history, fairy-tale and the unfamiliar practicalities of a different hemisphere.
作者简介:
Michael Ondaatje is the author of three earlier books of poetry incding The Cinnamon Peeler:Selected Poems.He has also written the following prose works:Coming Through Slauthter,Running in the Family,In the Skin of a Lion,The English Patient-for which he won the Booker Prize in 1992-and Anil's Ghost,his most recent novel(published in 2000).He lives in Toronto.

1 A Gemtleman 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
2 The Nine Sentiments
3 Flight
Wells
The Siyabaslakara
Driving with Dominic…
Death at Kataragama
The Story
House on a Rde Cliff
Step
Last Ink