Kangaroo Paws: Poems Written in Australia - Softcover

Ray, David

9780943549347: Kangaroo Paws: Poems Written in Australia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0943549345 ISBN 13: 9780943549347

Publisher: Truman State Univ Pr, 1995

KANGAROO PAWS: POEMS WRITTEN IN AUSTRALIA deals vividly and dramatically with Australian culture and with many historical figures. Themes include ecological matters, the Aborigines, the history of discovery and settlement of the country, the outback and other places. The literary history is addressed in poems dealing with several Australian writers, comparing them with Americans such as Jack Kerouac and Nelson Algren.

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About the Author:

David Ray is author of many award-winning volumes of poetry. Josephine Jacobsen, former poetry consultant to the Library of Congress, wrote that "David Ray is one of the most sensitive and humane, as well as accomplished, of our American poets."

Review:

"The sheer breadth of landscape, people, flora and fauna makes for a compelling sequence in KANGAROO PAWS..." -- The Toronto Review

"a stunningly unsentimental eye for beauty...heartbreaking lyricism that spares nothing..." -- Rachel Hadas

Kangaroo Paws is an collection of the poetry of David Ray written in Australia and reflecting his flair for the beauty and tragedy of life. Ray writes with depth and imagery rarely equaled and never surpassed. These are not the children of Brazil/roaming the plaza, picked off one/at a time by death squads/but the children of Australia/sold a few stubbies, wine coolers,/pinch bottles, not to forget cigarettes/cradled in arm to the darkness/broken by bonfire, creak of timbers/torn loose from the old house. They die/for certainty, they die for industry,/they die because nobody cares and they prove/it again and again with each crash or fall/on the tracks or the slow rot of liver. . . -- Midwest Book Review

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