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Learning human : selected poems / Les Murray.

By: Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.Edition: 1st edDescription: 229 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0374260737
  • 9780374260736
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 821 21
LOC classification:
  • PR9619.3.M83 A6 2000
Other classification:
  • HQ 2372
Contents:
The Burning Truck -- Driving Through Sawmill Towns -- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow -- Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfil -- Incorrigible Grace -- Boopis -- The Pure Food Act -- Jozsef -- Kiss of the Whip -- The Broad Bean Sermon -- The Mitchells -- The Powerline Incarnation -- Creeper Habit -- Employment for the Castes in Abeyance -- The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle -- The Gum Forest -- Rainwater Tank -- The Future -- Immigrant Voyage -- Homage to the Launching-place -- First Essay on Interest -- The Fishermen at South Head -- View of Sydney, Australia, from Gladesville Road Bridge -- Quintets for Robert Morley -- Equanimity -- Shower -- The Quality of Sprawl -- Weights -- Midsummer Ice -- Machine Portraits with Pendant Spaceman -- Little Boy Impelling a Scooter -- The Hypogeum -- Second Essay on Interest: The Emu -- A Retrospect of Humidity -- Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn -- The Chimes of Neverwhere -- The Smell of Coal Smoke -- Time Travel -- Late Snow in Edinburgh -- Flood Plains on the Coast Facing Asia -- The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever -- The Sleepout -- Louvres -- The Drugs of War -- Letters to the Winner -- The Milk Lorry -- The Butter Factory -- Bats' Ultrasound -- The Lake Surnames -- Nocturne -- Lotus Dam -- Hearing Impairment -- Poetry and Religion -- May--When Bounty Is Down to Persimmons and Lemons -- June--The Kitchens -- July--Midwinter Haircut -- November--The Misery Cord -- December--Infant Among Cattle -- February--Feb -- The Transposition of Clermont -- The Emerald Dove.
Summary: Presents a collection of poems, written since 1965, that the author considers to be his best work.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PR 9619.3 .M83 A6 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31693
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PR 9369.3 .P37 C7 2003 Cry, the beloved country / PR 9387.9 .A3 A83 1987 Anthills of the Savannah / PR 9387.9 .A3 M3 1989 A man of the people / PR 9619.3 .M83 A6 2000 Learning human : selected poems / PR 9780 .N37 Tales from modern India / PR 9799 .H8 1960 An African treasury : articles, essays, stories, poems / PS 78 .S65 1997 Understanding contemporary American literary theory /

Includes indexes.

The Burning Truck -- Driving Through Sawmill Towns -- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow -- Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfil -- Incorrigible Grace -- Boopis -- The Pure Food Act -- Jozsef -- Kiss of the Whip -- The Broad Bean Sermon -- The Mitchells -- The Powerline Incarnation -- Creeper Habit -- Employment for the Castes in Abeyance -- The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle -- The Gum Forest -- Rainwater Tank -- The Future -- Immigrant Voyage -- Homage to the Launching-place -- First Essay on Interest -- The Fishermen at South Head -- View of Sydney, Australia, from Gladesville Road Bridge -- Quintets for Robert Morley -- Equanimity -- Shower -- The Quality of Sprawl -- Weights -- Midsummer Ice -- Machine Portraits with Pendant Spaceman -- Little Boy Impelling a Scooter -- The Hypogeum -- Second Essay on Interest: The Emu -- A Retrospect of Humidity -- Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn -- The Chimes of Neverwhere -- The Smell of Coal Smoke -- Time Travel -- Late Snow in Edinburgh -- Flood Plains on the Coast Facing Asia -- The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever -- The Sleepout -- Louvres -- The Drugs of War -- Letters to the Winner -- The Milk Lorry -- The Butter Factory -- Bats' Ultrasound -- The Lake Surnames -- Nocturne -- Lotus Dam -- Hearing Impairment -- Poetry and Religion -- May--When Bounty Is Down to Persimmons and Lemons -- June--The Kitchens -- July--Midwinter Haircut -- November--The Misery Cord -- December--Infant Among Cattle -- February--Feb -- The Transposition of Clermont -- The Emerald Dove.

Presents a collection of poems, written since 1965, that the author considers to be his best work.

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