Swoon
New & Selected Poems
Published on 1. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
306 pages
979-8-9985883-6-5 (ISBN)
Description
Swoon: New and Selected Poems by Erin Murphy spans more than two decades and ten collections, from her debut, Science of Desire, to her latest work. Prize-winning lyric, narrative, and documentary poems shimmer alongside demi-sonnets, a form of her invention. Marked by tender observation, humor, linguistic play, interrogation of injustice, and masterful craft, Swoon gives us hope that "the planet has only/ one conjunction: and and and and and."
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-9985883-6-5 (9798998588365)
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Erin Murphy is the author or editor of more than a dozen previous books of poetry and prose, most recently Fluent in Blue. Her awards include a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, two Foreword INDIES Book of the Year awards, and a Best of the Net award. She is professor of English at Penn State Altoona and poetry editor of The Summerset Review.