“If he is awake early enough the boy sees the men walk past the farmhouse down First Lake Road.” –Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of the Lion
Posts Tagged ‘Michael Ondaatje’
Guest Post, by Michael Kimball: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged In the Skin of the Lion, Michael Ondaatje on May 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Thinking About Poets Writing Fiction
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Charles Baxter, Eugene Lim, Fugitive Pieces, Michael Hulse, Michael Ondaatje, Miners Pond, Renee Gladman, Rikki Ducornet, Robert Creeley, Skin Divers, The Island, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The Weight of Oranges, The Winter Vault, Thomas Hardy, Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gass on February 16, 2010 | 35 Comments »
I finished reading Michael Hulse’s new translation of Rilke’s anguished novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge this past Valentine’s Day. (This is the fourth translation I’ve read of the novel.) Written in seventy-one luminous fragments, the novel coheres into a brilliantly lacquered mosaic. As expected from this meditant of meaning, of memory, the novel [...]