The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems (Vintage International)($18.00Value)

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Michael Ondaatje’s new 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. “Michael Ondaatje’s poems read with the same whimsical precision and authority one finds in his prose. He is the most sensibly ironic writer I’ve read in years, and the most generously disposed. Would that all worlds were this deftly attended.” —Robert Creeley “Ondaatje is one of the country’s best, a formidable craftsman and artist.” — The Whig-Standard , Kingston “You feel yourself deep inside his mind and heart, and from there you feel the poem dance.” —Sharon Olds Michael Ondaatje?s new 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. Michael Ondaatje's new 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. Michael Ondaatje is the author of three previous novels, a memoir and eleven books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize. Born in Sri Lanka, he moved to Canada in 1962 and now lives in Toronto. The Cinnamon Peeler Selected Poems By Michael Ondaatje Vintage Books USA Copyright © 1997 Michael Ondaatje All right reserved. ISBN: 9780679779131 TRANSLATIONS OF MY POSTCARDS the peacock means order the fighting kangaroos mean madness the oasis means I have struck water positioning of the stamp — the despot’s head horizontal, or ‘mounted policemen’, mean political danger the false date means I am not where I should be when I speak of the weather I mean business a blank postcard says I am in the wilderness Continues... Excerpted from The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje Copyright © 1997 by Michael Ondaatje. Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site.