The Biplane Houses

by Les Murray

Book Overview

This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002. In it we find Murray at his nearmiraculous best. The collection--named for a kind of house distinctive to Murray's native Australia--exhibits both his unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style, or genre: there are story poems, puns extended to poem length, history--and myths in miniature, aphoristic fragments, and domestic portraits...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374531285
• ISBN13: 9780374531287
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"