Poems 1959-89
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Spanning three transformative decades of Australian literary life, David Malouf's Poems 1959–89 presents a sweeping retrospective of one of the nation's most distinguished poetic voices, chronicling his evolution from a young writer in the 1950s to a celebrated master of the craft by the close of the 1980s. The collection gathers verse that moves with quiet intensity through themes of memory, landscape, identity, and belonging — mapping an inner geography as vivid and expansive as the Australian continent itself. Malouf's poetry is distinguished by its pellucid imagery, finely tuned musicality, and the rare ability to illuminate the profound within the everyday, drawing the reader into a sustained meditation on what it means to inhabit a life, a body, and a place. As one of the foundational figures of modern Australian literature — equally celebrated for his fiction, including Remembering Babylon and An Imaginary Life — his poetic work reveals the deep lyrical roots from which his entire oeuvre grows. Poems 1959–89 is an essential volume for any reader who wishes to understand the full arc of a writer whose imagination has shaped the contours of a nation's literature.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Paperback
Published: 1992, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Poetry
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Spanning three transformative decades of Australian literary life, David Malouf's Poems 1959–89 presents a sweeping retrospective of one of the nation's most distinguished poetic voices, chronicling his evolution from a young writer in the 1950s to a celebrated master of the craft by the close of the 1980s. The collection gathers verse that moves with quiet intensity through themes of memory, landscape, identity, and belonging — mapping an inner geography as vivid and expansive as the Australian continent itself. Malouf's poetry is distinguished by its pellucid imagery, finely tuned musicality, and the rare ability to illuminate the profound within the everyday, drawing the reader into a sustained meditation on what it means to inhabit a life, a body, and a place. As one of the foundational figures of modern Australian literature — equally celebrated for his fiction, including Remembering Babylon and An Imaginary Life — his poetic work reveals the deep lyrical roots from which his entire oeuvre grows. Poems 1959–89 is an essential volume for any reader who wishes to understand the full arc of a writer whose imagination has shaped the contours of a nation's literature.