LEADER 03798nam 2200697 450 001 9910456233503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-7898-4 010 $a1-282-02342-X 010 $a9786612023422 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442678989 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001111 035 $a(OCoLC)288097469 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218833 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000307621 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11247336 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000307621 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10250177 035 $a(PQKB)10260276 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600393 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254928 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671877 035 $a(DE-B1597)464793 035 $a(OCoLC)1002242313 035 $a(OCoLC)1004878151 035 $a(OCoLC)1011453570 035 $a(OCoLC)1013946335 035 $a(OCoLC)944177699 035 $a(OCoLC)999379454 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442678989 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671877 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257566 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001111 100 $a20160923h20032003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRagas of longing $ethe poetry of Michael Ondaatje /$fSam Solecki 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2003. 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-8543-1 311 $a0-8020-3763-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction: 'the slight silver key' -- $tThe Dainty Monsters: The Poetry of Myth and Evasion -- $tCovers -- $tthe man with seven toes: Point Blank -- $tTitles -- $tRat Jelly: 'right to the end of an experience' -- $tEpigraphs -- $tThere's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Transition -- $tCanon I -- $tSecular Love: It Runs in the Family -- $tCanon II -- $tHandwriting: The Poetry of Return -- $tLast Word: Ondaatje on Poetry -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Ragas of Longing, Sam Solecki offers the first book-length study of Michael Ondaatje's poetry and its place in his body of work. Relating the poetry to various poetic traditions from classical Tamil to postmodern, Solecki presents a chronological critical reading of Ondaatje's six volumes of poems. Among the study's concerns are the relationship between the poet's life and work, his poetic debts and development, his theory of poetry, and his central themes. Also present are close readings of Ondaatje's monographs on Leonard Cohen and Edwin Muir, the Scots' poet and critic.Solecki suggests that Ondaatje's poetry can be seen as constituting a relatively unified personal canon that has evolved with each book building on its predecessor while simultaneously preparing the groundwork for the following volume. The author argues that Ondaatje's writing has a narrative unity and trajectory ? a figure in the carpet ? determined by crucial events in his life, especially the early breakup of his family and his subsequent exile from his father and place of birth. The result is a body of major poetry whose vision is post-Christian, postmodern and, despite an often humourous tone, fundamentally tragic. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry. 676 $a811/.54 700 $aSolecki$b Sam$0465365 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456233503321 996 $aRagas of longing$92451553 997 $aUNINA