The Story

by Michael Ondaatje

Book Overview

Michael Ondaatje's poems have been celebrated by readers and writers alike for containing some of the most memorable and moving verse written in the past half-century. The Story combines Ondaatje's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887841945
• ISBN13: 9780887841941
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

NICE BOOK

I knew the poem "The Story" from another collection of poetry. But it is still nice to have the book "The Story"!

"and then the past is erased"........

.....We are told on the first page of "THE STORY". Children are given forty days of dreams of previous lives and then "the past is erased". This is a beautifully written and illustrated little book that teases out questions and follows with elegiac whispers of the memories, the histories that were present before the maps were buried. The poem takes us to a place we have already been trained to enter and conquer, only any projection past that point is unknown..... thus at the end we are left to reflect and wonder.....and hope for our future. Michael Ondaatje magically takes the reader into his hands and transports him gently through his poem in a dreamlike haze. This lovely little book would make a wonderful gift and knowing that all royalties go directly to a fundraising project for World Literacy of Canada is an added bonus!