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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN-10: 0374525382
ISBN-13: 9780374525385
Buy.com Sku: 30287589
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Pages:
112
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| Winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in English Joseph Brodsky once said of Les Murray: "He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives." In these darkly funny and deeply observant "Subhuman Redneck Poems," farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Richly inventive, tenderly detailed, and fiercely honest, these poems both surprise and expose the human in all of us. |
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From the Publisher:
Chosen the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for the best book of poetry written in English in 1996, an inventive collection of honest, perceptive poems exposes the humanness that exists in all of us. Reprint. |
New York Review of Books
"Whether poetry today remains slightly sacred or not, there is no doubt about Les Murray's own kind of achievement." - John Bayley 10/09/1997 "He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives." - Joseph Brodsky "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." - Derek Walcott New Yorker
"Few poets have Murray's gift for marrying the musical and the political." 07/14/1997
"Whether poetry today remains slightly sacred or not, there is no doubt about Les Murray's own kind of achievement." - John Bayley 10/09/1997 "He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives." - Joseph Brodsky "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." - Derek Walcott New Yorker
"Few poets have Murray's gift for marrying the musical and the political." 07/14/1997
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