About the Book: Distance of a Shout: Selected Poems
From independence movements in Sri Lanka to train stations in contemporary
Ontario, an intimate and witty selection of Michael Ondaatjes most widely loved
poems taken across fifty years
My life always stops for a new book by Michael Ondaatje JHUMPA LAHIRI
Through poems that grow out of his profound understanding of the subtle
complexities of life and relationships, of how we lose and find ourselves,
Michael Ondaatje navigates his own past, beginning with memories of his
childhood in Sri Lanka and his eccentric family, to his life in rural southern
Ontario with its beloved rivers, celebrations of treasured