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Michael Ondaatje Poetry embraces and subverts clichés ofMichael Ondaatje is a Canadian poet, novelist, editor and filmmaker. Born in Sri Lanka in 1943, Ondaatje immigrated to Canada where he attended the University of Toronto and Queens University before teaching at York University. After gaining some initial success as a poet with Governor Generals Award winning collections like, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, and Theres a Trick with a Knife Im Learning to Do: Poems, Ondaatje eventually turned to