Les Murray
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Conscious and Verbal: Poems
Les Murray
A wonderful new collection by a wizard of contemporary poetry
Everything widens with distance, in this perspective.
The dog’s paws, trotting, rotate his end of infinity
and dam water feels a shiver few willow drapes share.
Bright leaks through their wigwam re-purple the skinny beans
then rapidly the light tops treetops and is shortened
into a day. Everywhere stands pat beside its shadow
for the great bald radiance never seen in dreams. —from “Aurora Prone”
In July 1996, the Australian…
Learning Human: Poems
Les Murray
A Collection of Les Murray’s poetry that reveals the variety, intensity, and generosity of this great Australian poet’s work.
I starred last night, I shone:
I was footwork and firework in one, a rocket that wriggled up and shot
darkness with a parasol of brilliants
and a peewee descant on a flung bit… —from “Performance”
Les Murray is as keenly admired as any poet working today. Joseph Brodsky called him simply “the one by whom the language lives.” Harold Bloom has compared him to Walt Whitman, as well…
