{"product_id":"9780375705410","title":"Handwriting: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon.\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHandwriting\u003c\/b\u003e is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since \u003cb\u003eThe Cinnamon Peeler\u003c\/b\u003e. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for—and expose the anguish over—lost loves, homes, and language, as the poet contemplates scents and gestures and evokes a time when \"handwriting occurred on waves, \/ on leaves, the scripts of smoke\" and remembers a woman's \"laughter with its \/ intake of breath. Uhh huh.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrafted with lyrical delicacy and seductive power, \u003cb\u003eHandwriting\u003c\/b\u003e reminds us of Michael Ondaatje's stature as one of the finest poets writing today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020586008816,"sku":"9780375705410","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375705410_p0.jpg?v=1763691963","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375705410","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}