Not For You Alone by Robert Murphy
Excerpt from the poem: That Love Should in the Fall of the Year(Click here for audio)
Only chrysalize me
that I may lose this bitter mask.
Honey me. Limb and lip me silk
that I may, yet, molt and metamorphosed be.
My winter pose uncoat and closet.
Should spring become me.
In “Not For You Alone” Robert Murphy has collected poems that each address a particular person in the poet’s life. Some are written in memoriam and others cherish the living.
Poet and critic Norman Finkelstein says: “These are poems of great courtesy, of hospitality: they invite us in. We find ourselves in a world where the natural surround yields almost imperceptibly to the precincts of the householder, and vice versa. The gardener, the naturalist, the quiet but acute observer of the local flora and fauna, intimate with what lives and grows within a few hundred feet of his door, returns in these poems to the mythic realm that has always belonged to him by right. And just as the line between the natural and the domestic gracefully wavers here, so too does the border between mythic truth and immediate observation.
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Robert Murphy’s poems have appeared in the literary periodical Smartish Pace, as well as the Colorado Review, The Notre Dame Review and the Chicago based journal LVNG. He is a 2000 winner of the William Bronk Foundation award for poetry.
Robert Murphy is founder and executive editor of Dos Madres Press.
Product Details
Chapbook: 21 pages of Poetry
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0-9763647-3-5
