{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-past-poems-paperback","title":"Waiting for the Past: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLes Murray\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection of poems from Les Murray that renews and transforms the contemporary world through language\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Past, \u003c\/i\u003eLes 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLes Murray (1938-2019)\u003c\/b\u003e was a widely acclaimed poet, recognized by the National Trust of Australia as one of the nation's treasures in 2012. He received the T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in English in 1996 for \u003ci\u003eSubhuman Redneck Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and was also awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry presented by Queen Elizabeth II. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMurray also served as poetry editor for the conservative Australian journal Quadrant from 1990-2018. His other books include \u003ci\u003eDog Fox Field, Translations from the Natural World, Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse, Learning Human: Selected Poems, Conscious and Verbal, Poems the Size of Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Past\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45336677810278,"sku":"9780374536879","price":23.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/d2xzcVllVVlUdEx0Y2VUSHFjQ1lLQT09.webp?v=1774615802","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/waiting-for-the-past-poems-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}