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Poems the size of photographs / Les Murray.
LIBRA - Special PR9619.3.M83 P64 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Les A., 1938-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- x, 115 pages ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003.
- Summary:
- "A new book of short poems by Australia' s master poet" "Brief, that place in the year" "when a blossoming pear tree" "with its sweet laundered scent" "reinhabits wooden roads" "that arch and diverge up" "into its electronic snow city." - " Brief, That Place in the Year" In" Poems the Size of Photographs," Les Murray deftly maneuvers through familiar terrain- the Australian people, politics, and landscape- as well as terrain that is harder to render tangible: history, myth, and symbol. As if trying to find the fissure through which to crack open his subject matter, Murray has sharpened his form to an ideogrammatic brevity. Each snapshot-like poem in this volume develops before the reader' s very eyes, as the initially observed object or moment in time changes meaning and grows in complexity and resonance line by line.
- Contents:
- The New Hieroglyphics
- On the Borders
- The Annals of Sheer
- Ernest Hemingway and the Latest Quake
- The Images Alone
- Rooms of the Sketch-Garden
- Angophora Floribunda
- At the Falls
- True Yarn
- An Australian Legend
- The Engineer Formerly Known as Strangelove
- The Tin Clothes
- The Successive Arms
- Judged Worth Evacuating
- The Moon Man
- Succour
- Predawn in Health
- The Antipodes of India
- Robert Fergusson Night
- To Dye For
- Touchdown
- The Cut-Out
- History of the Enlightenment
- Visitor
- Mythology
- Clothing as Dwelling as Shouldered Boat
- Starry Night
- The Kettle's Bubble-Making Floor
- Big Bang
- Worker Knowledge
- Jellyfish
- To Fly in Just Your Suit
- The Great Cuisine Cleaver Dance Sonnet
- Lace Curtain
- Creole Exam
- The Hewers
- Laggan Cemetery
- The Paint House
- Hoon Hoon
- A Countryman
- The End of Symbol
- The Scores
- Reclaim the Sites
- The Clear Saline of Theory
- The Fair Go
- The Bellwether Brush
- In a Time of Cuisine
- Uplands
- The Pay for Fosterage
- The Myriads
- A Study of the Nude
- Iguassu
- Pieta Once Attributed to Cosme Tura
- The Knockdown Question
- The Insiders
- The Onset
- The Dog's Bad Name
- Pop Music
- The Body in Physics
- Fruit Bat Colony by Day
- Cool History
- The Machine-Gunning of Charm
- The Climax of Factory Farming
- Massacre's All-Party Fuel
- Fusee
- D.C.
- Outside of the Iron Mask
- The Poisons of Right and Left
- The Top Alcohol Contender
- Apsley Falls.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0374235201
- 9780374235208
- 0374528810
- 9780374528812
- OCLC:
- 50920776
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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