Learning human : selected poems /
Les Murray.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.
- 229 pages ; 24 cm
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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1900-1999
Australian poetry--20th century. Australian poetry.