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Les Murray: A Life in Progress | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter F. Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1133070
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0195535014
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780195535013
ASIN: 0195535014
Publication Date: April 5, 2001
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This is the first biography of one of Australia's finest poets--a famed lyricist, polyglot, and polemicist. Alexander draws on extensive interviews with Murray to reveal how this complex man endured the harshest and most anti-intellectual of childhoods to develop into one of the most famous poets writing in English today.
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A perfectly ordinary genius July 14, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Peter Alexander has written a biography that does come close to doing justice to perhaps the greatest living poet in English. It is not only a well crafted account of the details of Murray's hard early life; it is, more tellingly, a compelling yarn about the pain, struggle and triumph of a troubled, stubborn and divine genius.
It can also serve as a useful primer. And not just to some of Murray's more diffcult poems, but to poetry itself. You are put closer to the poet's seemingly impossible aspirations for his words, and thereby participate more keenly in the truth of his poetic gifts in revealing the spirituality of the ordinary.
It is hoped too that this biography is as premature as its title suggests, as I, for one, want to hear a lot more of Murray's poetry in years to come.
Excellent biography of a Great Poet September 5, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Les Murray is the leading poet in the English-speaking world today. This account of his often strange life and work is scholarly, well researched and lifts the lid on some of the dirty tricks of Murray's rivals and enemies in the Australian literary scene (there were unsuccessful attempts to ban it). Sheds light on many aspects of poetry, culture in general, and the human condition.
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