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Detainee
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "The dark eroticism that inhabits Miguel Murphy's DETAINEE becomes eerily familiar as each startling poem explores the urges, the instincts, and the passions that bare their teeth 'what is love without arrows?' Human nature's private hues are visceral and violent, sensual and predatory, and Murphy's provocative verse dares to imagine them undisguised, as if to tell us, "You don't even know / the beast who you are.'" Rigoberto Gonzalez"
- GenresPoetry
72 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2016
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July 16, 2022
Oh man. This is a poetry collection devoted to unreasonable urges and burdensome desires, "our juices aching in / our meaning, our listening meat," full of vulgar visionaries and ecstatics, rhapsodizing fetishists like the man who "wanted to watch / nightmare's mouth / scatologically / blossoming...the devil's / eye-mouth open," and asking if love could be the desperate need between "the one / German, who since childhood fantasized being eaten alive. / The other, to literally eat him." Excellent.
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