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Subhuman Redneck Poems

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by Les Murray
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Availability:In StockContributor:Les MurrayPublish date:1998-03-04Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374525385ISBN-10:374525382UPC:9780374525385Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Australian & OceanianSize:8.21 x 5.48 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCYVNKGT03

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374525385ISBN-10:374525382UPC:9780374525385Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Australian & OceanianSize:8.21 x 5.48 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.3109Product ID:SCYVNKGT03

Les Murray (1938-2019) 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 Subhuman Redneck Poems, and was also awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry presented by Queen Elizabeth II.

Murray also served as poetry editor for the conservative Australian journal Quadrant from 1990-2018. His other books include Dog 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, and Waiting for the Past.


Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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