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Killing the Black Dog - A Memoir of Depression (Paperback, New)
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Killing the Black Dog - A Memoir of Depression (Paperback, New)
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In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in
the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck
with depression. In the months that followed, the "Black Dog" (as
he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He
ducked a parking ticket on grounds of insanity, and begged a police
officer to shoot him rather than arrest him. For days on end he lay
in despair, a state in which, as he puts it precisely, "you feel
beneath help."
"Killing the Black Dog "is Murray's recollection of those awful
days: brief, pointed, wise, and full of beauty in the way of his
poetry. The prose text--delicately balanced between personal and
informative--gives a glimpse of the imprint that depression can
leave on a life. The accompanying poems show their roots in his
crisis--a crisis from which, he reports toward the close of this
poignant book, he has fully recovered. "My thinking is no longer
jammed and sooty with resentment," he recalls. "I no longer wear
only stretch-knit clothes and drawstring pants. I no longer come
down with bouts of weeping or reasonless exhaustion. And I no
longer seek rejection in a belief that only bitterly conceded
praise is reliable."
"Killing the Black Dog "is a crucial chapter in the life of an
outstanding poet.
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