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Inside Stories
With Inside Stories, Rich Murphy has as an initial impetus plumbing the physical and emotional interior of Homo sapiens. Friedrich Schiller’s play drive may best describe the “It is union of the unconscious and reflection that makes the poetic artist.” Meta-modernism may best describe its heart. He agrees with philosopher Alain Badiou, who states, “Poetry in some sense portrays . . . what was impossible to say in the same language.” A peek into the anatomical language for its functions and intrigues will become evident in Murphy’s poetics, as will the use of rudimentary scientific language for aspects of interiority.
100 pages, Paperback
Published August 12, 2024
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November 1, 2024
Inside Stories, the timely new collection of poems from Rich Murphy, sheds a glimpse into a society rife with both division and harmony, one where people reprogram their perceptions of joy and despair through symbiotic, borderline parasitic relationships to technology.
The speakers in Murphy's poems often take a critical tone toward what takes place before them, but they are also able to employ a sense of humor that consistently relieves the tension and anxiety—reminding readers to laugh at various absurdities that are out of control of the average person, like a sinkhole that carries one down “to the pajama and bedding department / (“bing”) somewhere in a sub-basement” of the earth. Throughout this collection, he plays with repetitions of sound and surreal images to break down expectations behind words and phrases we think we know.
In his unique and fresh poetic voice, Murphy reconstructs our modern setting in such large scale as the universe and the expanding galaxies within it, and down to as miniscule locations as “the made-up-minute” upon which so many things function. I highly recommend Inside Stories as a pathway into viewing, and maybe understanding, the interior processes of people today. The latest installment in what continues to be a prolific career for Rich Murphy as a poet, educator, and essayist.
The speakers in Murphy's poems often take a critical tone toward what takes place before them, but they are also able to employ a sense of humor that consistently relieves the tension and anxiety—reminding readers to laugh at various absurdities that are out of control of the average person, like a sinkhole that carries one down “to the pajama and bedding department / (“bing”) somewhere in a sub-basement” of the earth. Throughout this collection, he plays with repetitions of sound and surreal images to break down expectations behind words and phrases we think we know.
In his unique and fresh poetic voice, Murphy reconstructs our modern setting in such large scale as the universe and the expanding galaxies within it, and down to as miniscule locations as “the made-up-minute” upon which so many things function. I highly recommend Inside Stories as a pathway into viewing, and maybe understanding, the interior processes of people today. The latest installment in what continues to be a prolific career for Rich Murphy as a poet, educator, and essayist.
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