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Les Murray, Dissident Poet
Les Murray, who died at age 80 on April 29, has been called Australia’s greatest poet, but such an encomium meant little to him. Murray grew up in dire...
The Lawrence Tree
The topknot turned. Light struck the needled floor. / The darts of sunlight found you where you lay, / a target of entrancement, breathing pitch. ...
From a Line in a Novel
The rent is due, and a pelagic grief / stretches far beyond what the eye can see. ...
After the Dinner
The friend who tells me I’m a selfish ass / is drunk, so maybe I should let it pass...
Work Song
From the day my old man hazed the young cadet / to now, as I pull on my socks, / how many universes have been born? ...
