A Year of Last Things: Poems by Michael Ondaatje
- A Year of Last Things: Poems
- Michael Ondaatje
- Page: 128
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9780593801567
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Free pdb ebook download A Year of Last Things: Poems iBook English version 9780593801567 by Michael Ondaatje
From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back Following several of his internationally acclaimed novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje’s long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes witty, sometimes moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and the abandoned landscapes we hold on to to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. Moving from a Sri Lankan boarding school to Molière’s chair during his last stage performance, to Bulgarian churches and their icons, to the California coast and his beloved Canadian rivers, Michael Ondaatje casts a brilliant eye that merges memory with the present, in the way memory as the distant shores of art and lost friends continue to influence everything that surrounds him. From his poem "His chair, a narrow bed, a motel room, the fox": At the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles Sam Cooke was shot dead. ‘See that shadow on the wall . . .’ All those motels and hotels in literature and song, where X wrote this, where Y got drunk, where Z overdosed. The one Hank Williams was driven past, dead already in his car. The Slavianski Bazaar Hotel in "The Lady with a Dog," where Dmitri imagines their dark but hopeful future. The Hôtel de ville de Courtrai, where Verlaine shot Rimbaud. The Casa Verdi in Milan, where retired opera singers were welcomed along with various heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa in their afterlife.
A Year of Last Things: Poems (Unabridged)
From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back
A Year of Last Things : Poems book by Michael Ondaatje
Buy a copy of A Year of Last Things : Poems book by Michael Ondaatje. From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising
BOOKS: “A Year of Last Things” by Michael Ondaatje
Jan 15, 2024 —
The Last Thing – Poetry Daily
The Last Thing · Ada Limón · First there was the blue wing of a scraggly loud jay tucked into the shrubs. Then, the bluish black moth drunkenly tripping from
A Year of Last Things: Poems by Michael Ondaatje
From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking
A Year of Last Things
They make an emotional history. As he writes in the opening poem: `Reading the lines he loves /he slips them into a pocket, /wishes to die with his clothes /
The Last Thing by Ada Limón - Poems
The Last Thing · Sign up for Poem-a-Day · More by this poet · Dead Stars · Instructions on Not Giving Up · The Raincoat · Footer
Browse Books: Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
Browse Books: Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica ; A Year of Last Things: Poems By Michael Ondaatje Cover Image · A Year of Last Things: Poems (
A Year of Last Things: Poems (Hardcover)
In A Year of Last Things he comes close to writing something like a timeless poem, 'a memory poem' that reflects outside and inside time at the same moment,