{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-past-poems-9780374536879","title":"Waiting for the Past: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection of poems from Les Murray that renews and transforms the contemporary world through language\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Past, \u003c\/i\u003eLes Murray employs his molten sense of language to renew and transform our experience of the world. With quicksilver verse, he conjures his rural past, the life of the poor dairy boy in Australia, as he simultaneously feels the steady tug of aging, of time pulling him back to the present. Here, syntax, sense, and sound combine with such acrobatic grace that his poems render the familiar into the unknown, the unknown into the revelatory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Whether Murray is writing about a boy on a walkabout hiding from grief, a sounding whale \"spilling salt rain,\" or leaves that \"tread on the sky,\" the great Australian poet's sense of wonder, his ear for the everyday, his swiftness of thought, are everywhere in these pages. As Derek Walcott said of Murray's work, \"There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and conversational.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374536879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.51w x 0.20d","brand":"Les Murray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636671541404,"sku":"9780374536879","price":12.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5c72a1f7-a88b-47e3-b4c4-d144c4f34c34.jpg?v=1603842600","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/waiting-for-the-past-poems-9780374536879","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}