{"product_id":"continuous-creation-last-poems-9780374607883","title":"Continuous Creation: Last Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe final collection of poems by the great Australian poet Les Murray, \u003ci\u003eContinuous Creation \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe bring nothing into this world\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eexcept our gradual ability\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eto create it, out of all that vanishes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eand all that will outlast us.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eContinuous Creation\u003c\/i\u003e, the final collection from Les Murray, the preeminent poet of modern Australia recalls moments from his youth and wryly observes the changing world, moving back and forth through time and history with characteristic curiosity and an ever-fresh commitment to capturing the rhythms of life in verse. This collection displays Murray's miraculous ability to reinvent language in order to plant his and our reality on the page, whether he writes about the Australian landscape (\"Kangaroo sleeping \/ ahead on the road turns out \/ to be twigs and leaves\") or unsold books sitting in department stores. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eContinuous Creation \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates, once more, that Murray was one of the great poets of the English language. As Joseph Brodsky said, he was, \"quite simply, the one by whom the language lives.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLes Murray\u003c\/b\u003e (1938-2019) was a widely acclaimed poet, recognized by the National Trust of Australia in 2012 as one of the nation's treasures. He received the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize for Best Book of Poetry in English for \u003ci\u003eSubhuman Redneck Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and was also awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry. He served as the poetry editor for the Australian journal \u003ci\u003eQuadrant \u003c\/i\u003efrom 1990 to 2018. His other books include \u003ci\u003eDog Fox Field\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Translations from the Natural World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Learning Human: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Conscious and Verbal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Poems the Size of Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWaiting for the Past\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50453170782482,"sku":"9780374607883","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e8426960-f6e1-4450-aa96-32fea1285c38.jpg?v=1729838271","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/continuous-creation-last-poems-9780374607883","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}