A new book of short poems by Australia's master poet Brief, that place in the year when a blossoming pear tree with its sweet laundered scent reinhabits wooden roads that arch and diverge up into its electronic snow city. --"Brief, That Place in the Year" In Poems the Size of Photographs, Les Murray deftly maneuvers through familiar terrain--the Australian people, politics, and landscape--as well as terrain that is harder to render tangible: history,...