Cinnamon Peeler

A selection of poems written between 1963-88 by Michael Ondaatje, the novelist, demonstrating an acute sense of story and social density. Ondaatje's witty and elegant poems resemble the whimsical dreamscapes of Rousseau, except that they are tinged with a rueful, sometimes mocking, irony. The poems have the feel of being written in a lonely moonlit kitchen at 2 a.m. in an atmosphere of deeply savored melan Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.