A new collection of poems from Les Murray that renews and transforms the contemporary world through language <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Whether Murray is writing about a boy on a walkabout hiding from grief, a sounding whale \u201cspilling salt rain,\u201d or leaves that \u201ctread on the sky,\u201d the great Australian poet\u2019s sense of wonder, his ear for the everyday, his swiftness of thought, are everywhere in these pages. As Derek Walcott said of Murray\u2019s work, \u201cThere 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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