Erin Murphy
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November 2014
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Human Resources: Poems
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Assisted Living
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2018
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2 editions
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Dislocation and Other Theories
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2008
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Word Problems
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2011
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Science of Desire
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2004
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Distant Glitter
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2013
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Ancilla
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2014
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Fluent in Blue: poems
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Too Much of This World
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2008
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Annie Oakley, we learn, “got the gun down from the rack behind the fireplace when mother was not looking and went out to practice with it.” The rest, as we know, is history — and legend. The reader of “Lady Wing Shot” can imagine Sara Moore Wagner do
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| This is not a poetry book. 𝘊𝘦𝘤𝘪 𝘯'𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘴 𝘶𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘦𝘪𝘭 𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘦́𝘴𝘪𝘦. Which is to say, in the tradition of Magritte, 𝘉𝘰𝘺𝘴 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 is and is not what it appears to be. Part poetry, part visual art, part anthropological experiment, part cultural study, ...more | |
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| I read this book the week I learned a good friend was moving into assisted living. These lines from “A World of Want” hit me hard: “You think your life will go on/ like this forever—weekly trips/ to the garbage bin, untangling/ the green snake of hos ...more | |
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| Gotta admit I did not expect a poetry chapbook to open with a quote from Khloe Kardashian. But dang, “I love hard” does sum up this fierce collection by Allison Blevins. I should have suspected from the title -- "Keeping Up” -- that these prose poems ...more | |
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| What is “verve” in poetry? Asking for a friend. Okay, asking for myself. A poet I admire once described my poetry as having verve, and I kind of knew what he meant…and I kind of didn’t. Yet now I find myself wanting to say Cal Freeman’s poems have ve ...more | |
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| My son has an ambient music radio show, which is perfect for writing and thinking. I listen to it on headphones at the gym because it drowns out the noise and helps me focus on ideas for poems, teaching—even reviews. Robbi Nester opens her poem “Summ ...more | |
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| Sometimes I wonder if a poem set in a particular place and time can transcend nostalgia. And then I read Francine Witte’s “Pizza Hut, 1990” and realize it absolutely can. This is not a poem aimed only at those of us who remember the red booths & chec ...more | |
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Kari Gunter-Seymour, who served 6 years as Poet Laureate of Ohio, is a 9th generation Appalachian which she captures so eloquently in her poem “Because My Ancestors": …my people, crossing a cratered land, a pregnant woman, lanky and twanged, a thick mus ...more |
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| We think of the ocean as lulling. We design sound machines around the white noise of waves. We sing “My Bonnie” to babies. While most of the poems in SOFAR are set in or near the sea, Elizabeth Bradfield does not rock us gently to sleep with these ly ...more | |
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| Those of us born in early summer got a raw deal with our sun sign’s name: Cancer. I mean, there’s no Diabetes or Flesh Eating Bacteria sign. Sheesh. So as a moon child, I was drawn to “Cancer: Daily Horoscope for Summer Solstice,” a poem that toggles ...more | |
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| Annie Oakley, we learn, “got the gun down from the rack behind the fireplace when mother was not looking and went out to practice with it.” The rest, as we know, is history — and legend. The reader of “Lady Wing Shot” can imagine Sara Moore Wagner do ...more | |
“The novel puts an ad in the personals:
Serial monogamist seeks same.
6x9, 220 pages. Hobbies: candlelit
tension, tasteful gore. Weakness:
occasional flashbacks. Enjoys long
walks on the beach to search for
bodies washing up on shore.”
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Serial monogamist seeks same.
6x9, 220 pages. Hobbies: candlelit
tension, tasteful gore. Weakness:
occasional flashbacks. Enjoys long
walks on the beach to search for
bodies washing up on shore.”
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