{"product_id":"9781466894785","title":"Poems the Size of Photographs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrief, that place in the year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhen a blossoming pear tree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewith its sweet laundered scent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ereinhabits wooden roads\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat arch and diverge up\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003einto electronic snow city.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --\"Brief, That Place in the Year\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePoems The Size of Photographs\u003c\/i\u003e, Les Murray deftly maneuvers through familiar themes--the local terrain of the Australian people, politics, and landscape, as well as the terrain that is harder to render tangible: history, myth, and symbol. As if trying to find the fissure through which to crack open his subject matter, Murray has sharpened his form to an ideogrammatic brevity. Each snapshot-like poem in this volume develops before the reader's very eyes, as the initially observed object or moment in time changes meaning and grows in complexity and resonance line by line.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181277266160,"sku":"9781466894785","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466894785_p0.jpg?v=1769892369","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466894785","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}