Conscious and Verbal: Poems

by Les Murray

Book Overview

A wonderful new collection by a wizard of contemporary poetry Everything widens with distance, in this perspective. The dog's paws, trotting, rotate his end of infinity and dam water feels a shiver few willow drapes share. Bright leaks through their wigwam re-purple the skinny beans then rapidly the light tops treetops and is shortened into a day. Everywhere stands pat beside its shadow for the great bald radiance never seen in dreams. -from "Aurora...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374128820
• ISBN13: 9780374128821
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"