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Title: Life in the Ordovician: Selected Poems
Author: Robert Murphy
ISBN: 9781933675312
Publisher: Dos Madres Press
Published: 2007
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
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Publisher : Poetry. 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.–Norman Finkelstein
Like Forrest Gander and James Merrill, Robert Murphy writes in [on?] the interface of the distant past and the far future. This is a threshold poetry–extending infinite possibilities from a stable, cosmic center.–Paul Bray
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