Subhuman Redneck Poems
オーストラリアの詩人レス・マレーが、農民や父親、周縁化された人々、そして土地の歴史を、鋭いユーモアと怒りを含む詩で描く。
作品情報
オーストラリアの風景が、言葉の力で熱く照らされる。
地方の歴史と風景、家族や共同体の感情を、濃密な詩語で掘り下げた代表的詩集。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- 発売日
- 1998-03-04
- ページ数
- 114ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 0.69 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780374525385
- ISBN-10
- 0374525382
- 価格
- 2976 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 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 .
レビュー
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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
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