Practitioner Joy
Published on 8. June 2020
100 pages
978-1-7252-6988-0 (ISBN)
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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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Rich Murphy has taught writing and literature for thirty-four years at various colleges and universities. His five poetry collections have won two national book awards: the Gival Press Poetry Prize in 2008 for Voyeur and the Press Americana Poetry Prize for Americana (2013); he has also published Body Politic (2017) and Asylum Seeker (2018). Murphy's first book was The Apple in the Monkey Tree (2007). His chapter books include Great Grandfather, Family Secret, Hunting and Pecking, Phoems for Mobile Vices, and Paideia.
