FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, MARCH 2000
Copyright © 1998 by Michael Ondaatje
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in Canada by McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto, in 1998, and subsequently in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1999.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Ondaatje, Michael, [date]
Handwriting : poems / by Michael Ondaatje. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-94882-3
1. Sri Lankans—Canada—Poetry. 2. Sri Lanka—Poetry. I. Title.
PR9199.3.05h36 1999
811′.54—dc21 98-1731
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