The Biplane Houses

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Les Murray

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This is Les Murray’s first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002. In it we find Murray at his nearmiraculous best. The collection—named for a kind of house distinctive to Murray’s native Australia—exhibits both his unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style, or genre: there are story poems, puns extended to poem length, history—and myths in miniature, aphoristic fragments, and domestic portraits. As ever, Murray’s evocation of the natural world is unparalleled in its inventiveness and virtuosity. The Biplane Houses is ardent, eloquent, enchanting poetry.

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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

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Jrmcrae  rated it  
Sep 11, 2010
I love the way Les plays with words, turns and tips and tortures them and wrings the blood out!
Drink up! ...more
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Jennifer  rated it  
Nov 10, 2008
Poetry books are books to dip into and savour - to refresh the soul or heighten the sensibilities. "Biplane Houses" is one of the best collections by any poet anywhere!

This is a tiny 'taste' from my favourite poem, "Airscapes" in Les Murray's latest collection, the ev ...more
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Troy  rated it  
Sep 21, 2010
In her review of Murray’s “The Biplane Houses” titled “Boetias of the Mind”, Lisa Gorton makes a germane observation regarding how Murray might approach writing his poems;
“But Murray treats his images as though they were found, not made. Perhaps this is part of what he means when he writes tha
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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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The Biplane Houses
Poems
Les Murray

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
August 2008
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ISBN: 9780374531287
ISBN10: 0374531285
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 112 pages
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