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There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, 1963-1978
Paperback, 107 pages
Published
March 1st 1979
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 1979)
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Tiny narratives, not quite compressed or distilled, that lurch and mist into story. Usually the same form and mode: stanzas divided at the phrase, with occasional word-drifts, and a poem with stanzas that starts with commas. Often domestic in subject, without being domesticated, he can take on dogs, moons, and wives without making the reader feel like they're drinking dishwater. Sutured and grafted worlds, unconcerned with posing, evenness, form, length, depth, or avoiding repetition. I'm fondes...more
A beautiful collection of Ondaatje's poetry. The original cover has this image but a much better font (for those who care about these things, and I do). I continue to reread and to share poems from this collection.
Another one where I liked some but not all. Still, Ondaatje in general makes my heart beat really fast.
Play a life game. How many times and places will you read "Letters and Other Worlds"?
In many ways, better than his fiction.
it scarred me - in a good way
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He was born to a Burgher family of Dutch-Tamil-Sinhalese-Portuguese origin. He moved to England with his mother in 1954. After relocating to Canada in 1962, Ondaatje became a Canadian citizen. Ondaatje studied for a time at Bishops College School and Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, but moved to Toronto and received his BA from the University of Toronto and his MA from Queen's Universit...more
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