Waiting for the Past
Poems
A new collection of poems from Les Murray that renews and transforms the contemporary world through languageIn Waiting for the Past, Les Murray employs his molten sense of language to renew and transform our experience of the world. With quicksilver verse, he conjures his rural past, the life of the poor dairy boy in Australia, as he simultaneously feels the steady tug of aging, of time pulling him back to the present. Here, syntax, sense, and sound combine with such acrobatic grace that his poems render the familiar into the unknown, the unknown into the revelatory. Whether Murray is writing about a boy on a walkabout hiding from grief, a so…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-374-53687-9
- EAN: 9780374536879
- Produktnummer: 19875035
- Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.5 cm 129 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 129
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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