A year of last things poems
"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...
| Main Author: | Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Lock
- Definition
- 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.