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The Biplane Houses

Poems

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks, Published: August 2008, ISBN: 978-0-374-53128-7, ISBN-10: 0-374-53128-5,Trim: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 112 pages

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“The most impressive thing about the new poems [in The Biplane Houses] is their capacity, writing ‘with a whole heart,’ to find the pathos in unlikely subjects.” —Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker
“The best writer of poetry in English.” —Fraser Sutherland, The Globe and Mail
“The Biplane Houses offers challenges and pleasures to readers who appreciate that ‘punning moves toward music.’” —Alexandra Yurkovsky, San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author(s)

Les Murray

Les Murray is the author of twelve books of poetry. Subhuman Redneck Poems (FSG, 1997) received the T. S. Eliot Prize, and in 1998 Queen Elizabeth presented him with the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. He lives on a farm on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia.

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