Typewriter Music
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 ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Typewriter Music, a masterful poetry collection that captures the rhythms of everyday life with the precision and cadence of a well-struck key. David Malouf—novelist, poet, and essayist of extraordinary range—turns his attention here to the music hidden in the mundane: the clatter of memory, the percussion of place, and the melody of human connection that threads through the Australian landscape and beyond. Malouf's verse is characterised by its luminous economy and its capacity to render vast emotional landscapes in spare, elegant lines. Typewriter Music continues a distinguished poetic tradition that the author has sustained alongside his acclaimed fiction, illustrating how language itself becomes a kind of composition—measured, resonant, and alive. Published by the University of Queensland Press, this collection stands as a testament to Malouf's enduring belief in the power of poetry to articulate what prose cannot, leaving the reader to wonder what silence sounds like once the music stops.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 2007, UQP (University of Queensland Press)
Genre: Poetry
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Typewriter Music, a masterful poetry collection that captures the rhythms of everyday life with the precision and cadence of a well-struck key. David Malouf—novelist, poet, and essayist of extraordinary range—turns his attention here to the music hidden in the mundane: the clatter of memory, the percussion of place, and the melody of human connection that threads through the Australian landscape and beyond. Malouf's verse is characterised by its luminous economy and its capacity to render vast emotional landscapes in spare, elegant lines. Typewriter Music continues a distinguished poetic tradition that the author has sustained alongside his acclaimed fiction, illustrating how language itself becomes a kind of composition—measured, resonant, and alive. Published by the University of Queensland Press, this collection stands as a testament to Malouf's enduring belief in the power of poetry to articulate what prose cannot, leaving the reader to wonder what silence sounds like once the music stops.