Author

Contributions

  • Otis Books, - Contributor
  • Seismicity Editions. - Contributor

Publication

2006 - Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, Los Angeles, California

Language

English

Word Count

16,500 words, Guess

Page Count

66 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing1119451

Classifications

  • LCCPS3613.U775 D69 2006

Description

"Poetry. DOWN WITH THE SHIP is Ryan Murphy's first full-length collection of poetry. A staff member at the Academy of American Poets in New York, Murphy's work echoes a few other poets who've haunted that fair city-names like Berrigan and Ceravolo come to mind-but this is no mere derivative exercise. With a fine ear for cadence and an eye for the odd and illuminating line break, Murphy gleans the U.S. cultural landscape for both detritus and diamonds in the rough, emerging with a unique post-millennial blend of torqued language and affecting (if also disembodied) confession. In this beat-up world we can bat clean-up for the L.A. Dodgers and find joy in "That same old feeling, /a pop song" and yet at once concur that we fight darker thoughts, that "It is wrong/to want to punt/the child that wails/in the night." A fine debut."--Publisher's website.

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  • Down with the shipOtis Books/Seismicity Editions2006-01-01

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