{"product_id":"subhuman-redneck-poems-paperback","title":"Subhuman Redneck Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLes a. Murray\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Brodsky once said of Les Murray: \"He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives.\" In these darkly funny and deeply observant \u003ci\u003eSubhuman Redneck Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLes Murray (1938-2019)\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSubhuman Redneck Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and was also awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry presented by Queen Elizabeth II.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurray also served as poetry editor for the conservative Australian journal Quadrant from 1990-2018. His other books include \u003ci\u003eDog 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\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Past\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.21 x 5.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47350534865145,"sku":"9780374525385","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/MEJOZVZQdVVZMldrRjE5ZHNxWWhJQT09.webp?v=1769786736","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/subhuman-redneck-poems-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}