Waiting for the Past Don Denevi Dakota Territory

Dakota Territory

and a record of its fabulous run

and the core values of a pluralistic society

this book -- the first of its kind to focus on the U

This is also a picturesque and unique glimpse into history

Waiting for the Past Don Denevi Dakota TerritoryThe clearly focussed lyrics of Les Murray's Waiting for the Past are rich in topographies and the languages peculiar to them wonga vines, lyre birds, gum trees, shrike thrushes, tallow boughs, boab trees, the octopus in Wylies Baths killed by sterilising chlorine. With the erasures the modern world brings, words, landscapes and lives descend to the Esperanto of the modern. The poet, with a salutary resistance, rejects the computer and the incursions