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...that of the world. In mentioning his daughter’s wedding he writes, “Since you’d become happy, / you told me, you’d stopped writing poems, / I should wish you a long silence.” The next piece, significantly, is Murray??s take on the transformation of music in the modern day, written in a purposely unmelodic rhyming pattern, “the hypnotic one like weed-smoke at a party / and the muscular one out of farty / cars that goes Whudda Whudda...
...worldly experience. Raised on a dairy farm, he only collided with the moneyed classes in his university years. He has long been a defender and voice of the rural poor and has written extensively about rural Australian landscapes and the rural existence. A devout Catholic convert and fierce Republican, Murray??s work is always tinged with religious conscience and political Republican fervor, which he often uses to critique large segments of the population...
...group is safe from Murray??s scrutiny. He attacks the press, the white middle class, literary editors and many others. Whites especially come under repeated heat for historical and present conduct. An especially illustrative poem is “The Great Hall of Chlorine” which describes a pool spa where the white middle class gathers. Together they eye a non-white family who enters, “this is Race” with a capital letter. One of the most powerful poems in the collection is “At the Swamping of Categories...
...Murray??s words did not reassure everyone...