A vocation of service …

… Waiting for the Past by Les Murray review – matter-of-fact extravagance | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)

The density of the material (both actual and verbal) is accommodated by the plainness of the sentence structure. When reading aloud, where some poets aim for glory, Murray can sound almost impatient of his own work, and in these lines the eventual resolving rhythm has to make a case for itself among solid, intransigent objects. It is almost but not quite too much.