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Learning Human: Selected Poems
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Learning Human: Selected Poems Hardcover - 2000

by Murray, Les

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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2000. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 230 pp. .
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  • Title Learning Human: Selected Poems
  • Author Murray, Les
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Date 2000
  • Features Dust Cover, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOOKS011971I
  • ISBN 9780374260736 / 0374260737
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.31 x 6.4 x 0.96 in (23.65 x 16.26 x 2.44 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99042758
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2000, Page 864
  • Library Journal, 12/01/1999, Page 140
  • New York Times, 03/12/2000, Page 10
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/06/1999, Page 72

About the author

Les Murray (1938-2019) 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 Subhuman Redneck Poems, and was also awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry presented by Queen Elizabeth II.

Murray also served as poetry editor for the conservative Australian journal Quadrant from 1990-2018. His other books include Dog 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, and Waiting for the Past.