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Rod Moran The Paradoxes of Water Selected and New Poems 1970-2005
Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: Rod Moran was born in 1952 in Seymour, a small country town about 120 kilometres north of Melbourne. A graduate of the University of Melbourne, Moran’s first poetry was published by The Bulletin magazine, a key journal in Australian literary history, when he was just 18 years old. He has had three volumes of poetry published, High Rise Sniper, Against the Era and Listening to the Train Passing. His verse has been anthologised nationally and internationally, including by Oxford University Press. BIC Basic EAN13: 9781844711086 ISBN-10: 1844711080 ISBN-13: 9781844711086 Author: Rod Moran Title: The Paradoxes of Water Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 01-Mar-05 Extent: 140pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 8 mm Weight: 210 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 9.99 Price: USD 15.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£9.99~~ £7.99 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$15.95~~ $12.76	Short description/annotation: WINNER WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER’S BOOK AWARDS 2005. Covering more than thirty years of writing, this landmark publication shows the depth and range of Rod Moran’s poetic life. Well-travelled, tough-minded and unwavering in its moral vision, Moran’s poetry is filled with concern for historical, social and political identity, as well as a delight in and concern for the natural and man-made worlds. He ensures for us the serious responsibility of being here. Main description: WINNER WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER’S BOOK AWARDS 2005. Covering more than thirty years of writing, this landmark publication shows the depth and range of Rod Moran’s poetic life. Well-travelled, tough-minded and unwavering in its moral vision, Moran’s poetry is filled with concern for historical, social and political identity, as well as a delight in and concern for the natural and man-made worlds. He ensures for us the serious responsibility of being here. Table of contents: High Rise Sniper 1970-1980 Chemical Worker Country Town Cross Country Dreaming from Suburban Details 1. High Rise Sniper 2. Suicide Poem for the Bus Driver 5. Sisyphus 7. Suburban Rain from Bass Strait Poems 1. Wybalena Chapel, Flinders Island 2. Kelp Farmers 4. Inlet, Flinders’ Island 5. Beach Walk, Apollo Bay Gardener Ghosts Kampuchea Rabbits Remembering Greg Silos Swan River Travelling Against the Era 1982-1988 Bolshevik Chic Elegy from Against the Era Against the Era Leaders Mass Meeting Poem on the Anniversary of Pablo Neruda’s Death Politics Spring Premonitions Staffroom Understanding Hegel/TV Uneasy Bells Waffen Skins, Melbourne Ways of Laughing Wire from Theorems of the Senses An Ecology Butterfly House Moving Home The Scheme of Things Sleepless from West Coast Suite Meditations of a Fisherman Night Fishing Return Returned to My Childhood Lunar River from The Lazarus Poems 1990- A Western Front Vignette Fishing With Pythagoras Lazarus and the Hiroshima Incident Lazarus Considers the Gulag Lazarus Ponders the Moon Further Lazarus Returns to a Metropolis Lazarus Sang His Mythos Nightly Lazarus, Sleepless The Dead of the Seven Seas Listening to the Train Passing (1988-94) A Memoir of Birds Aldo the Limeburner An Effect of Black Cockatoos Kettle Baroque Listening to the Train Passing Marc Chagall by the River My Grandfather’s Narration from Retinue for Raoul Wallenberg Message to Wallenberg Someone is Calling A Twentieth Century Parable History Moved Through a Forest at Katyn The Yanchep Bonfire Raves Recalling a Rave Around the Fire With Anthony Lawrence The Glenn Miller Rave Raving to Kevin Murray About his Letters The Hank Williams Rave A Rave About Nature and Human Artefacts The Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker Rave The Dean Martin Rave Urban Fox The Paradoxes of Water: New and Uncollected Poems 1990-2005 A Lyric on the Natural History of Our Love A Homage to the Elephant Construction Site Forensic Triptych Evidence Detention Political Correctness Goat Killing Kosovo from Letters from the Metro Impressions of the Metro, First Day My Daughter Reading Paradox Parrots Premonition Remorse A South Perth Dreaming The Moon Over Baghdad The Paradoxes of Water The University Van Morrison Warder Wind Yugoslavia, 1992 View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (100 KB) Excerpt from book: Moving Home Digging the forgotten strata, finding again parts of myself, (prints, notations, dusty letters, ideas, fragments on a shelf). I sift the dross, the chunks of years, hear my footsteps chime in the hall, relinquish what I had cherished, burn old papers, wash down the walls. The lemon tree, as ever, blooms outside the lounge–room window pane. The boughs are laden down with fruit. The wind pauses, then gusts again. This leaving is like a return to where I had been once before; (a book that I had loved with passion is stacked with junk upon the floor). Outside the house, the wind moves on. I excavate, read with a frown an arrival piece I’d written, laying the deep sediments down. Review quote: … he aims high … the results are remarkable. The Sydney Morning Herald Review quote: One of Australia’s most exciting and talented … poets … His poetry of a crossing of the country is written with the power and feeling of Randolph Stow, making the most of an ability to conjure images of physical beauty – and the things we do to that beauty … (It) is thought-provoking, stylish poetry … The Daily News Review quote: Moran’s poetry should attract a wider audience, not only because it is very good poetry in itself but also because of what it represents. It is a poetry of highly developed technique … Moran is concerned with using poetic technique properly, with both a richness of image, language, rhythm, metaphor and rhyme and the maximum possible clarity of language … In particular, it is a poetry of strength and meaning. Rod Moran is one of a number of writers whose work heralds a new and much more promising direction in Australian poetry. Westerly Unpublished endorsement : Rod Moran is an original, independent-minded poet of considerable technical control and range. Though recognised in his home country of Australia, he deserves an international readership. He defies categorisation. John Kinsella Review quote: Literary Editor for the West Australian, Rod Moran is known more for reading and critiquing books than for writing them, but wrongly so. He has three other volumes of poetry, and his recent Sex, Maiming and Massacre won the Margaret Metcalf Award for excellence in archival research. The Paradoxes of Water consists of poems sharply observed and keenly felt. At the same time, Moran’s poems have perspective, of politics and history, for example of how history is a snapshot of politics at a particular moment and from a particular point of view: in “The University,” we are told, “Plato’s silhouettes / flicker in the lecture hall – / doctrine, agit–prop.” A strong collection of his selected and new work from the past thirty–five years Judges Comments: Western Australian Premier’s Awards