Waiting for the Past - Couverture rigide

Murray, Les

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374285926 ISBN 13 : 9780374285920

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Shortlisted for the 2015 TS Eliot Prize. The clearly-focussed lyrics of Les Murray's Waiting for the Past are rich in topographies and the languages peculiar to them - wonga vines, lyre birds, gum trees, shrike thrushes, tallow boughs, boab trees, the octopus in Wylies Baths killed by sterilising chlorine. With the erasures the modern world brings, words, landscapes and lives descend to the Esperanto of the modern. The poet, with a salutary resistance, rejects the computer and the incursions of the levelling Modern in favour of old-fashioned typewriters, unlikely saints, lived-in places, an Easter rabbit 'edible and risen', farming in the spirit of ancestors. This is the past he waits for in scenes unmade by human carelessness, not only in his rural place but across the world. The poems speak of the unspeakable, including old age, vertigo, illness, and the durable resilience of married love.

Revue de presse

'No one writes like Murray: so truthful, nakedly emotional, wry, watchful. He's set deep in the Australian landscape, writing about back roads, vertigo, sliced bread, old typewriters and the persistence of love. Murray is the holy fool of his own poems, and a hero of poetry' --The Observer

'A transcendental collection creates a lived-in world that is both celebrated and lamented' --The Guardian

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374285926
• ISBN 13: 9780374285920
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 81
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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