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A year of last things : poems
Title
A year of last things : poems / Michael Ondaatje.
ISBN
9780593801567
0593801563
9780593801574
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
x, 110 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Notes
"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.
Summary
"Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. Moving from a Sri Lankan boarding school to Moliere's chair during his last stage performance, to Bulgarian churches and their icons, to a California coast, and his beloved Canadian rivers, Michael Ondaatje casts a brilliant eye that merges his past and present, in the way memory and the distant shores of art and lost friends continue to influence all that surrounds him"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 09, 2024
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5 a.m.
Wanderer
Last things
Dark garden
The then
A night of radio station in Koprivshtitsa
What can be named in the Earth
A cricket in Oplontis 79 CE
Leg glance
Lost
Bruise
The great impermanence
A disappearance
River
A bus to Fez
One hundred views of the Pettah Market
Stillness
Unlit hut
The Cabbagetown Pet Clinic
Mask
Two photographs
Nights when I drove
Ford Maddox Ford & his writer friend
"Singly, in the midst of their own darkness"
The geography sixth
A billiard hall, cress sandwiches, wallpaper, a piano solo
His chair, a narrow bed, a motel room, the fox
November
1912
Stella
Evening
Into the past
Winchester House
"There are three sound in the wood this morning"
Estuaries
Talking in a river.
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