The Year Of The Foxes And Other Poems
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly worn spine and edges.
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Year of the Foxes and Other Poems, a collection that transforms the ordinary textures of memory, landscape, and identity into luminous verse. David Malouf chronicles the interior life with arresting precision, weaving together the personal and the universal in poems that vibrate with quiet intensity — images of foxes, seasons, and shifting geographies become vehicles for profound meditations on time, loss, and belonging. Malouf's poetic style is distinguished by its lyrical economy and sensory richness, drawing on both the Australian landscape and a broader Mediterranean inheritance to create verse of rare elegance. His imagery is never ornamental but always purposeful, constructing a world where the natural and the human are in constant, tender dialogue. For readers who prize poetry that rewards slow, attentive reading, this collection presents a master craftsman at work — one whose every line carries the weight of lives carefully observed and, ultimately, transformed.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Paperback
Published: 1979, George Braziller
Genre: Poetry
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Slightly worn spine and edges.
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes The Year of the Foxes and Other Poems, a collection that transforms the ordinary textures of memory, landscape, and identity into luminous verse. David Malouf chronicles the interior life with arresting precision, weaving together the personal and the universal in poems that vibrate with quiet intensity — images of foxes, seasons, and shifting geographies become vehicles for profound meditations on time, loss, and belonging. Malouf's poetic style is distinguished by its lyrical economy and sensory richness, drawing on both the Australian landscape and a broader Mediterranean inheritance to create verse of rare elegance. His imagery is never ornamental but always purposeful, constructing a world where the natural and the human are in constant, tender dialogue. For readers who prize poetry that rewards slow, attentive reading, this collection presents a master craftsman at work — one whose every line carries the weight of lives carefully observed and, ultimately, transformed.