Subhuman Redneck Poems
Australian poet Les Murray writes about farmers, fathers, marginalized people, and the history of place in poems charged with sharp humor and anger.
Work Information
The Australian landscape is lit fiercely by the power of language.
A major poetry collection that explores regional history, landscape, family, and community through dense and forceful language.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 1998-03-04
- Pages
- 114 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 0.69 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780374525385
- ISBN-10
- 0374525382
- Price
- 2976 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/Australia & Oceania
Winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in English Joseph Brodsky once said of Les Murray: "He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives." In these darkly funny and deeply observant Subhuman Redneck Poems , farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Richly inventive, tenderly detailed, and fiercely honest, these poems both surprise and expose the human in all of us.
Les Murray (1938-2019) was a widely acclaimed poet, recognized by the National Trust of Australia as one of the nation’s treasures in 2012. He received the T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in English in 1996 for Subhuman Redneck Poems , and was also awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry presented by Queen Elizabeth II. Murray also served as poetry editor for the conservative Australian journal Quadrant from 1990-2018. His other books include Dog Fox Field, Translations from the Natural World, Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse, Learning Human: Selected Poems, Conscious and Verbal, Poems the Size of Photographs , and Waiting for the Past .
Reviews
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Les Murray packs it in, there isn't a syllable of rest in this collection. No other poet can say so much in so few words. Here's the final verse of "Memories of the Height-to-Weight Ratio" But when the Institute started afresh to circle my job, we decamped to Europe and spent our last sixpence on a pig's head. Any job is a comedown, where I was bred. There's every colour of emotion in this collection. One thing about Murray: he knows.
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very good
Related Literary Awards
- T. S. Eliot Prize Edition 4 (1996) ・Winner