false<![CDATA[Handwriting: Poems]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165553809m/5943.jpg594312Sumptuous, steamy, downright sexy: on the blush-o-meter Ondaatje scores a 10. Those who can't get enough of his melodious prose--most notably in <I>The English Patient</I>, which earned him the Booker Prize in 1992--will find the same lyrical genius in his verse. In his 10th collection, Ondaatje transports us to his childhood home of Sri Lanka. With strikingly sensuous imagery, he conjures a land of bangles, cattle bells, stilt-walkers, and a 1000-year-old buddha "buried in Anuradhapura earth, / eyes half closed, hands / in the gesture of meditation... roots / like the fingers of a blind monk / spread for two hundred years over his face." As the title suggests, <I>Handwriting</I> is an elegiac tribute to the ancients who in "wild cursive scripts... spent all their years / writing one good book"; whose "physical yearning / became permanent" and "desire became devotional." In his Sanskrit and Tamil love poem, "The Nine Sentiments," Ondaatje not only proves most definitively that music is the key to unlocking a reader's heart, but also argues for poetry's healing powers in times of strife: <blockquote> The brush of sandalwood along a collarbone<br> Green dark silk<br> A shoe left<br> on the cadju tree terrace<br> these nights when "pools are<br> reduced by constant plungings"<br> Meanwhile a man's burning heart<br> his palate completely dry<br> on the Galapitigala Road<br> thinking there is water in that forest<br> </blockquote> Ondaatje's final poem, "Last Ink," explains why the need to preserve human experience through art is as instinctive as the desire to die in a lover's arms. Dealing with large-scale emotions and scenes of love and war, these are poems that strike to the heart. <I>--Martha Silano, Amazon.co.uk</I>31192531998Handwriting: Poemstotal:192|5:46|4:70|3:57|2:17|1:2|1927172631359430375705414978037570541017812Handwriting: Poems3.73http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165553809m/5943.jpg
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The Cinnamon Peeler, was just much better than this one. I think I only "felt" or liked 3 passages in the entire book:
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40falseMon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007Wed May 28 16:21:33 -0700 2008Tue Jun 03 14:30:19 -0700 2008 Michael Ondaaatje walks with you into his Sri Lanka where the richness there inspires the lush lingering prose that issues from his pen.
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