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  <title><![CDATA[The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems]]></title>
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  <default_description>Michael Ondaatje&amp;#8217;s new selected poems, &lt;i&gt;The Cinnamon Peeler&lt;/i&gt;, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, &lt;i&gt;Secular Love&lt;/i&gt;. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1989</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michael Ondaatje]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alongside &quot;Mockingbird Wish Me Luck&quot;, this book lays constant vigil on my nightstand.  Written about his mistress, but companion to anyone who has ever been awoken in the middle of the night by a low keening wail of want.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 01 12:26:38 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ondaatje is an author to be read slowly, to be savored like lemonade in the afternoon during a particularly hot summer. The depth and strength of his words, especially his poetry, are only really evident to me upon repeated readings. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5944.The_Cinnamon_Peeler_Selected_Poems" title="The Cinnamon Peeler  Selected Poems by Michael Ondaatje">The Cinnamon Peeler</a> is no different.<br/><br/>It's a challenging...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51165504">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I can understand why people give out about the poet Ondaatje! Some of this is quite laboured. But again, some is quite lovely.<br/><br/>Big metaphors, silly similes, occasionally.<br/><br/>I liked the stuff about his family, now that I've read his &quot;autobiography.&quot; There's a lot of ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59375071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49192685">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has one of my favorite poems of all time in it--&quot;The Time Around Scars&quot;. There's something deliciously provocative about Ondaatje's prose, and his poetry is no different. One of my favorites. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What on earth did I do with this book?  I remember being quite inspired by it, having slips of paper in many pages for reference.]]></body>
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    <review id="44454874">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection is another that I return to time and again for inspiration. ]]></body>
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    <review id="47801937">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eh, I couldn't get into these poems. I kept flipping through &amp; reading random poems &amp; just wasn't enjoying them. They may be well written and smartly crafted, but they're just not my thing.]]></body>
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    <review id="53978231">
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    <body><![CDATA[This slim book is a gift from Marie Cameron.]]></body>
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    <review id="3586616">
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first words of Michael Ondaatje that I read were photocopied from this book. I was sitting for a painter who gave me the title poem, The Cinnamon Peeler. Later, I took a course on Michael Ondaatje. I carried this book with me everywhere that semester, wrote all over it, admired the cover, shared...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3586616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50321530">
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some good poems, but most slackly written, prosy. The title poem is excellent.]]></body>
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    <review id="36865298">
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 03 18:55:25 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful collection of Ondaatje's most resonant poems.  Like his own speech, Ondaatje's verse feels accented with something exotic, so that even scrubby Eastern Ontario farmland finds a kind of narrative lushness. Filled with humour, tenderness and sensuality.  The title piece is one of the most ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36865298">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2293778">
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    <name><![CDATA[Irene]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not for nothing that Ondaatje is one of my current favourite writers.  The Cinnamon Peeler is a little microcosm of his genius.  Claude Glass, just to name one amazing poem, is the best description of the insanity of drunkenness that I have ever read.<br/><br/>Best memory of this book is reading i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2293778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16635049">
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 28 14:33:54 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a definitive book of poetry by a man most known as a novelist.  So many of Ondaatje's best novels were born in his poetry, and it is still the best expression of his love of language and obsession with loyalty.  This book is an excellent addition to any collection, if only for the title poem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16635049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7651688">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tracy O]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 12 20:49:25 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 12 20:50:56 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Killer, original poetry.  This is poetry about friendship, love and artistic leanings.  I LOVE it and read the book over and over.  A Liz recommendation!  This is one of those books you come back to again and again - an immense comfort and reminder about your connections to your family, friends and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7651688">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6401765">
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    <body><![CDATA[Poetry that awakes your sense of smell, your soul, your suspicion. If you have ever been in love despite yourself or come across an abandoned corpse in a ditch of a morning, these are poems to scratch at your memory. If not, they may just awaken your imagination.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[smell my skin - I am the cinnamon peeler's wife]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I admit it, if not for the film The English Patient, I likely wouldn't have read Michael Ondaatje's fiction, his nonfiction or his poetry.  To have missed this book, I think, would have left me sad without quite knowing why.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not a huge poetry hound but this beautiful book of verse about signs along Interstate-40 in Kansas (where his wife is from) and a woman's love for her Cinnamon Peeler lover.  .erotic, exotic and tense with passion. . .]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the most phenomenal poetry I've read in a long time. Ondaatje reaches the essence of an experience with distilled language that touches your soul. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love michael andaatje(sp?) His words are always so...unique. I liked the structure of his novels a bit more, but this is one solid book o words!]]></body>
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