First edition. Signed by author on title page without inscription. No jacket. Top page ridge lightly foxed, ink name on front paste-down endpaper. 1995 Hard Cover. 143 pp. 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 with poems dealing with several Australian writers, comparing them with Americans such as Jack Kerouac and Nelson Algren.

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Title: Kangaroo Paws: Poems Written in Australia
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson University Press
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0943549353
ISBN 13: 9780943549354
Binding: Hard Cover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by author

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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 with poems dealing with several Australian writers, comparing them with Americans such as Jack Kerouac and Nelson Algren.

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

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