This is a portrait of Billy the Kid as reflected in a thousand pieces of a shattered mirror. The book is composed of vignettes, poems, photos, and fragments of prose, each of which is a little stroke of brilliance and all of which together paint an incredibly rich, violent, and moving portrait of this young man and his legend. Ondaatje is quite a conjurer here."Winner of Canada's Governor General's Award" on front cover 110p. illus.

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Title

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid : Left Handed Poems

Publisher

Anansi, Toronto

Publication Date

1970

Language

English

ISBN 10

0887840183

ISBN 13

9780887840180

Binding

Soft cover

Edition

Reprint.

Condition

Very Good +

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Inscribed by Author(s)

Book Type

Book

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Canadian Poetry

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Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje’s visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw’s passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.

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