
Practitioner Joy
Rich Murphy(Author)
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published on 8. June 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-1-7252-6987-3 (ISBN)
Description
Rich Murphy's Practitioner Joy is the poet's confrontation with his practice as a poet and, at least in part, his inevitable death. When outside Plato's Cave, capitalism's crisis horizon threatens with precarious neoliberalism, Wendy Brown's "every conduct is economic conduct," cyber algorithms and Shoshana Zuboff's "I once was mine; now I am theirs," and Yuval Noah Harari's and Stephen Hawking's "Homo Deus" (a new species of humans from the loins of the wealthy only), prophetic voices are needed in an effort to counter and perhaps change the narrative's and the future's direction. This collection of poems attempts to do just that. It is an alternative voice offering a way forward.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7252-6987-3 (9781725269873)
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Rich Murphy's poetry collections Inside Story, First Aid, Meme Measure, Space Craft, and Practitioner Joy were published by Resource Publications at Wipf and Stock. He has published several collections of poetry. His poetry has won The Poetry Prize at Press Americana for his collections Americana (2013) and The Left Behind (2021). Voyeur won the Gival Press Poetry Prize (2008).