Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Conscious and Verbal

0/5 ( ratings)

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 Prone"

In July 1996, the Australian press reported that after three weeks in a coma, the country's greatest poet, Les Murray, was again "conscious and verbal." Shortly thereafter, Murray resumed his work in words, and over the next four years he wrote these sixty-five poems, which, in their different ways, literally or sensually, replay that dreamy announcement of the perpetually waking world. Conscious and Verbal is one of the legendary poet's richest, fullest, and most imaginative books to date.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1999

ISBN 13: 9780374528607

Conscious and Verbal

0/5 ( ratings)

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 Prone"

In July 1996, the Australian press reported that after three weeks in a coma, the country's greatest poet, Les Murray, was again "conscious and verbal." Shortly thereafter, Murray resumed his work in words, and over the next four years he wrote these sixty-five poems, which, in their different ways, literally or sensually, replay that dreamy announcement of the perpetually waking world. Conscious and Verbal is one of the legendary poet's richest, fullest, and most imaginative books to date.

Language: English

Pages: 128

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1999

ISBN 13: 9780374528607

More books from Les Murray

Killing the Black Dog

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Subhuman Redneck Poems

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Waiting for the Past: Poems

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Biplane Houses

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Taller When Prone: Poems

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Translations from the Natural World

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Poems the Size of Photographs

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Best Australian Poems 2013

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Hell and After: Four Early English Language Poets of Australia

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Größer im Liegen

Un arcobaleno perfettamente normale

A Million Wild Acres

The Biplane Houses

Persistence in folly (Sirius)

The Australian Year: The Chronicle of Our Seasons and Celebrations

Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Regenbogen

The Quality Of Sprawl - Thoughts About Australia

Little Star 7: A Journal of Poetry and Prose

The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

IMAX Presents: Australia - Land Beyond Time

Rate this book!

Write a review?