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The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems

The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems

by Michael Ondaatje
The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems
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The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems

The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems

by Michael Ondaatje

Overview

Michael Ondaatje’s 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307948960
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 07/27/2011
Series: Vintage International
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 210
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Michael Ondaatje is the author of three previous novels, a memoir and eleven books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize. Born in Sri Lanka, he moved to Canada in 1962 and now lives in Toronto.

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TRANSLATIONS OF MY POSTCARDS

the peacock means order the fighting kangaroos mean madness the oasis means I have struck water

positioning of the stamp — the despot’s head horizontal, or ‘mounted policemen’,
mean political danger

the false date means I
am not where I should be

when I speak of the weather
I mean business

a blank postcard says
I am in the wilderness

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