Waiting For The Past: Poems

A new collection of poems from Les Murray that renews and transforms the contemporary world through language In Waiting for the Past, Les 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. Whether Murray is writing about a boy on a walkabout hiding from grief, a sounding whale ôspilling salt rain,ö or leaves that ôtread on the sky,ö the great Australian poetÆs sense of wonder, his ear for the everyday, his swiftness of thought, are everywhere in these pages. As Derek Walcott said of MurrayÆs work, ôThere 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.ö

• | Author: Les Murray
• | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
• | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 96 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0374536872
• | ISBN-13: 9780374536879