{"product_id":"green-shadows-and-other-poems-by-gerald-murnane-signed-edition","title":"'Green Shadows and Other Poems' by Gerald Murnane (signed edition)","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"51\" data-end=\"603\"\u003eGerald Murnane’s first full-length poetry collection gathers work written across several decades, but it does not feel like a late annex to the fiction.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"51\" data-end=\"603\"\u003eWithout the long, recursive architecture of the novels and essays, Murnane’s obsessions become barer, funnier and sometimes unexpectedly direct. The collection repeatedly tests the border between invented figures and remembered people. A name can produce a landscape; a rhyme can generate an imagined relationship; an apparently trivial sound can open onto grief, erotic longing or metaphysical unease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"51\" data-end=\"603\"\u003eMurnane often interrupts his own poetic constructions, questioning their sentiment, vanity or formal convenience as he makes them. The result is not poetry stripped of artifice but poetry fascinated by the mind catching itself in the act of making meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1428\"\u003ePublished by Giramondo in 2019, \u003cem data-start=\"1153\" data-end=\"1184\"\u003eGreen Shadows and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is essential for readers of \u003cem data-start=\"1213\" data-end=\"1225\"\u003eThe Plains\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1235\"\u003eInland\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1259\"\u003eA Million Windows\u003c\/em\u003e, but it also works as an eccentric entry point into Murnane’s world: local, recursive, comic, exacting and quietly haunted by everything language cannot quite retrieve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1455\" data-end=\"1595\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, Giramondo, 2019. Paperback in excellent condition with very light shelf wear. Signed by Gerald Murnane on the title page.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45860892409939,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-24T171235.182.png?v=1784877271","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/green-shadows-and-other-poems-by-gerald-murnane-signed-edition","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}