Daylight Saving: A Selection of Poems (The Australian Poets Series)

Robert Gray, Paul Kane (General editor)

$15.95

Publication Date: November 4th, 2013

Publisher:

George Braziller Inc.

ISBN:

9780807616222

Pages:

Description

The inaugural volume in The Braziller Series of Australian Poets.

Robert Gray has been hailed as “one of the contemporary masters of poetry in English” (Les Murray). This selection of Gray’s finest poems demonstrates his extraordinary capacity to see the world in luminous detail, rendering it with radiant intensity. Both philosophical and sensuous, this is work of remarkable originality. This series will introduce contemporary Australian poetry to American readers.

About the Author

Robert Gray is an award-winning poet whose work has been translated worldwide. He live sin Sydney, Australia.

Paul Kane is a poet and critic who has published six collections of poems and a dozen other books. He has received a Fulbright award, Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships and grants from the Mellon Foundation. He is general editor of The Braziller Series of Australian Poets, and is currently Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Vassar College. He lives in Warwick, New York.

Praise for Daylight Saving: A Selection of Poems (The Australian Poets Series)

To read Robert Gray is to sense and see with renewed vividness, as if there had been a scrim or barrier between ourselves and the world, and he has restored us to it by tearing away the separation.

— ForeWord Reviews