{"product_id":"9780771068775","title":"Handwriting","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon.\" -- Newsday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eHandwriting\u003c\/em\u003e is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since \u003cem\u003eThe Cinnamon Peeler\u003c\/em\u003e. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes, and language, as the poet contemplates scents and gestures and evokes a time when \"handwriting occurred on waves, \/ on leaves, the scripts of smoke\" and remembers a woman's \"laughter with its \/ intake of breath. Uhh huh.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCrafted with lyrical delicacy and seductive power, \u003cem\u003eHandwriting\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us of Michael Ondaatje's stature as one of the finest poets writing today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Ondaatje, Michael","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Poetry)","offer_id":46085626200288,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/716gpVhO23L._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1721836371","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9780771068775","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}