Word: murrayism
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...Andrew Murray, professor of molecular and cellular biology, shed light on the emerging role of genetics. He explained the difficulty in decoding the information contained in human...
...Murray writes about the past and the present, his own and 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...
...Murray was born in New South Wales, Australia where he continues to reside today after a multitude of travels and 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...
...reticent about his own craft; Murray constructs sharp reflections on poetry itself in more than one instance, however the best example of this nuance is “The Instrument?...
...social norms, world politics and past events is intriguing to view from his unique perspective, which is influenced by a life so different from our own. The poetry is presented in logical cohesion and aesthetic order. Some nuances may be difficult for non-native Australians to understand, for Murray commonly refers to places and uses local jargon that is incomprehensible to the lay American. Nevertheless, Conscious and Verbal provides a glimpse into a world that is far removed from our own, though strikingly similar. We can profit greatly from Murray’s discerning experience and keen...