Waiting for the Past (Poems) - 9780374536879

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A new collection of poems from Les Murray that renews and transforms the contemporary world through language

In 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 sounding whale “spilling salt rain,” or leaves that “tread on the sky,” the great Australian poet’s sense of wonder, his ear for the everyday, his swiftness of thought, are everywhere in these pages. As Derek Walcott said of Murray’s work, “There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and conversational.”

This book title, Waiting for the Past (Poems) - 9780374536879, ISBN: 9780374536879, by Les Murray, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 4, 2017) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Author:
Les Murray
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 4, 2017)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780374536879
ISBN-10:
0374536872
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.25" x 0.2"
Case Pack:
84
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Macmillan Trade
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Weight:
4.16oz
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