Learning Human
A bighearted selection from the inimitable Australian poet's diverse ten-book body of work Les Murray is one of the great poets of the English language, past, present, and future. Learning Human contains the poems he considers his best: 137 poems written since 1965, presented here in roughly chronological order, and including a dozen poems published for the first time in this book. Murray has distinguished between what he calls the Narrowspeak of ordinary affairs, of money and social position, of interest and calculation, and the Wholespeak of life in its fullness, of real religion, and of poetry. Poetry, he proposes, is the most human of act…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-374-52723-5
- EAN: 9780374527235
- Produktnummer: 9297099
- Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 244 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 331 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 331
Über den Autor
Australian poet and gentleman farmer Les Murray published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, two verse novels, as well as collections of his essays & a memoir; his work won many awards, including the T. S. Eliot Prize (1996). His books include The Vernacular Republic, Translations from the Natural World, Subhuman Redneck Poems, Fredy Neptune (a verse novel), & Killing the Black Dog (memoir). One of the earliest Gobshite Quarterly contributors, he passed away in 2019, & will be sorely missed.
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