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Handwriting: Poems

poetry by Ondaatje

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Canadian literature

  • The Handmaid's Tale
    In Canadian literature: Poetry and poetics

    In Handwriting (1998) Ondaatje returned to his birthplace, Sri Lanka. Fascination with place and history also permeates Al Purdy’s poems about the country north of Belleville, Ont., and about his travels west and to the Arctic (Being Alive, 1978) and to the Soviet Union (Piling Blood,…

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