[New-Poetry] Ondaatje and the soul of the poet

[Anny Ballardini]

This statement by Ondaatje has much more in it than what it actually says.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:29 AM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

>
> http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/478592.html
>
> Ondaatje has written five novels. The most recent was "Divisadero,"
> published in 2007. He has written 13 books of poetry.
>
> "I think the way that someone like [poet] William Carlos Williams writes
> about place and landscape is more believable to me than the way T.S. Elliot
> writes. Eliot imposes his mind-set on that landscape, and Williams goes into
> it and kind of discovers [it] . . . " Ondaatje said.
>
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