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    The Cinnamon Peeler

    Selected Poems

    Part of Vintage International

    Author Michael Ondaatje
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    $18.00 US
    Knopf | Vintage
    5.14"W x 7.94"H x 0.53"D   | 8 oz | 24 per carton
    On sale Jan 28, 1997 | 208 Pages | 9780679779131
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    Michael Ondaatje’s new selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist.
    “Michael Ondaatje’s poems read with the same whimsical precision and authority one finds in his prose. He is the most sensibly ironic writer I’ve read in years, and the most generously disposed. Would that all worlds were this deftly attended.”
    —Robert Creeley

    “Ondaatje is one of the country’s best, a formidable craftsman and artist.”
    —The Whig-Standard, Kingston

    “You feel yourself deep inside his mind and heart, and from there you feel the poem dance.”
    —Sharon Olds
    © Pete Paterson
    MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, including Coming Through Slaughter, The Cat’s Table, and Warlight; a memoir, Running in the Family; a nonfiction book on film-editing, The Conversations; and several books of poetry, including A Year of Last Things, The Cinnamon Peeler, and Handwriting. Among the international accolades, for all his work, The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and was made into a film by Anthony Minghella. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto. View titles by Michael Ondaatje

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    Michael Ondaatje’s new selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist.

    Praise

    “Michael Ondaatje’s poems read with the same whimsical precision and authority one finds in his prose. He is the most sensibly ironic writer I’ve read in years, and the most generously disposed. Would that all worlds were this deftly attended.”
    —Robert Creeley

    “Ondaatje is one of the country’s best, a formidable craftsman and artist.”
    —The Whig-Standard, Kingston

    “You feel yourself deep inside his mind and heart, and from there you feel the poem dance.”
    —Sharon Olds

    Author

    © Pete Paterson
    MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, including Coming Through Slaughter, The Cat’s Table, and Warlight; a memoir, Running in the Family; a nonfiction book on film-editing, The Conversations; and several books of poetry, including A Year of Last Things, The Cinnamon Peeler, and Handwriting. Among the international accolades, for all his work, The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and was made into a film by Anthony Minghella. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto. View titles by Michael Ondaatje

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