Waiting for the Past Don Denevi the other side of the

the other side of the coin

Dakota Territory

and the core values of a pluralistic society

along with the faceless governing bodies that condoned and even carried out heinous acts

Waiting for the Past Don Denevi the other side of theThe 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