Author: Michael Ondaatje

Brick, a literary journal

Brick
PO Box 609, Stn P
Toronto, ON M5S 2Y4
Canada

5 a.m.

for Stan Dragland and for Kris Coleman The wilderness of our youth, an empty barn,dancing with friends into the small hours,then daylight and the cars swerving awaywordless into the dawn It arrives all at once tonight,not as memory, but as . . .

Lost Careers: Le Douanier

There were two alternatives that presented themselves to me during my teens. What I was told I would or should be, and what I wished to be. Every year, at my school in England, career advisers arrived, spoke to you . . .

Reading Time: four minutes

Introduction to The New Brick Reader