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Title: |
What We're Left With |
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| By (author): |
Ben Murray |
| ISBN10-13: |
1897142293 : 9781897142295 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
215x139x7mm |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Weight: |
.138 Kg. |
| Published: |
Brindle & Glass (CA) - August 2007 |
| List Price: |
19.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry : Poetry by individual poets |
| The poems in Ben Murray' s debut collection, What We' re Left With, reflect on disconnection as a feature of contemporary urban experience. Murray' s poems tackle themes of isolation, loneliness and human separation from nature. Murray creates trademark images of surprising loneliness and suburban angst: sog-white mornings/ of caffeinated mouths/ mating Cheerios/ O to empty O. The poet longs for mall-free days of sprawling languid under a pre-cancerous sun when we hurry up/ and wait, to become men. Writing about climate change, the poet asks how long until hibernating bears/ shake November from their sleep-under fur/ and start snorting around for off-season/ bargains. Capable of many different registers, Murray writes, in assumed voices, of grief and memory beyond his own immediate experience, something he describes as tapping into some larger collective autobiography. |
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