
Teth
Sheila Murphy(Author)
Chax Press
Published on 1. January 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
92 pages
978-0-925904-05-8 (ISBN)
Description
Poetry. TETH, Sheila Murphy's latest collection, sifts through daily experience to forge "new methods of occurring/ in the world." In poems that enact Zukofskyan riots of attention, the consonantal fireworks of phrases like "borscht akimbo during vodka" interrogate the "ever perjuring" familiarity of our habitual and "mildly newspaperish lingo." Coupling domestic reveries with searing political commentaries, Murphy insistently seeks "to meet the neck that segregates/ the mind from form." "Sheila Murphy compels repetition, invites it, precisely because what she repeats is an action, the sitting down with the mind alive to all that's around... What her eye falls on, kites, clothespins, record jackets, gets in but not (so much) as diurnal notation, this because this-then, but as a religious trusting of the perceptual manifold to be an Event"--Gerald Burns, from the preface.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Weight
186 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-925904-05-8 (9780925904058)
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Sheila Murphy has been one of the finest poets in the American Southwest (and many would say, in the nation) for at least four decades, and one of the most independent voices among the American poetry avant-garde. Her work combines keen observation, deep spiritual observance, and a big spark of invention. She lives in Phoenix.