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    Rich Murphy Phoems for Mobil Vices 9781935402527 "Poetry editors learn quickly to perk up when opening submissions from certain authors. So it is when Rich Murphy shows up in my inbox. Poets who struggle with line limits—and all writers who struggle with word-count limits--can learn much from Rich’s shortest poems of, oh, five words. I mean, we’re getting into Jesus wept territory, here. Rich’s poems, like bullets, are small things capable of considerable impact. —Dale Wisely, RIGHT HAND POINTING “intriguing and somehow informative poems.” —Erica Wright, Poetry Editor, Guernica Rich Murphy is a genuine experimentalist, a tinkerer, a risk-taker of arresting, original, mordantly hilarious poems. He never seems content to repeat an achieved effect. He is always wrestling with some new project. He will figure into zany anthologies. And be admired for ""difficulties,"" while in fact commanding attention through the clear vigor of his inventions. Rich Murphy, American original. – George Starbuck " "Rich Murphy was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and has taught writing and literature for 23 years at Bradford College, Emmanuel College and now at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his undergraduate degree and his graduate degree in creative writing from Boston University, studying with Derek Walcott and the late George Starbuck. His collection of poems titled, Voyeur, was the 2008 Gival Press Poetry Award winner and will be out in October. Credits include a book of poems The Apple in the Monkey Tree by Codhill Press; chapbooks Great Grandfather by Pudding House Publications, Family Secret by Finishing Line Press, and Hunting and Pecking by Ahadada Press; poems in hundreds of journals; and essays in refereed journals, including Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture. "

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    Rich Murphy Phoems for Mobil Vices 9781935402527 "Poetry editors learn quickly to perk up when opening submissions from certain authors. So it is when Rich Murphy shows up in my inbox. Poets who struggle with line limits—and all writers who struggle with word-count limits--can learn much from Rich’s shortest poems of, oh, five words. I mean, we’re getting into Jesus wept territory, here. Rich’s poems, like bullets, are small things capable of considerable impact. —Dale Wisely, RIGHT HAND POINTING “intriguing and somehow informative poems.” —Erica Wright, Poetry Editor, Guernica Rich Murphy is a genuine experimentalist, a tinkerer, a risk-taker of arresting, original, mordantly hilarious poems. He never seems content to repeat an achieved effect. He is always wrestling with some new project. He will figure into zany anthologies. And be admired for ""difficulties,"" while in fact commanding attention through the clear vigor of his inventions. Rich Murphy, American original. – George Starbuck " "Rich Murphy was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and has taught writing and literature for 23 years at Bradford College, Emmanuel College and now at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his undergraduate degree and his graduate degree in creative writing from Boston University, studying with Derek Walcott and the late George Starbuck. His collection of poems titled, Voyeur, was the 2008 Gival Press Poetry Award winner and will be out in October. Credits include a book of poems The Apple in the Monkey Tree by Codhill Press; chapbooks Great Grandfather by Pudding House Publications, Family Secret by Finishing Line Press, and Hunting and Pecking by Ahadada Press; poems in hundreds of journals; and essays in refereed journals, including Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture. "

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    Rich Murphy Phoems for Mobil Vices 9781935402527 "Poetry editors learn quickly to perk up when opening submissions from certain authors. So it is when Rich Murphy shows up in my inbox. Poets who struggle with line limits—and all writers who struggle with word-count limits--can learn much from Rich’s shortest poems of, oh, five words. I mean, we’re getting into Jesus wept territory, here. Rich’s poems, like bullets, are small things capable of considerable impact. —Dale Wisely, RIGHT HAND POINTING “intriguing and somehow informative poems.” —Erica Wright, Poetry Editor, Guernica Rich Murphy is a genuine experimentalist, a tinkerer, a risk-taker of arresting, original, mordantly hilarious poems. He never seems content to repeat an achieved effect. He is always wrestling with some new project. He will figure into zany anthologies. And be admired for ""difficulties,"" while in fact commanding attention through the clear vigor of his inventions. Rich Murphy, American original. – George Starbuck " "Rich Murphy was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and has taught writing and literature for 23 years at Bradford College, Emmanuel College and now at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his undergraduate degree and his graduate degree in creative writing from Boston University, studying with Derek Walcott and the late George Starbuck. His collection of poems titled, Voyeur, was the 2008 Gival Press Poetry Award winner and will be out in October. Credits include a book of poems The Apple in the Monkey Tree by Codhill Press; chapbooks Great Grandfather by Pudding House Publications, Family Secret by Finishing Line Press, and Hunting and Pecking by Ahadada Press; poems in hundreds of journals; and essays in refereed journals, including Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture. "

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    Phoems for Mobile Vices

    Rich Murphy

    BlazeVOX [books]
    Buffalo, New York

    Phoems for Mobile Vices by Rich Murphy Copyright 2009


    Published by BlazeVOX [books] All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced without the publishers written permission, except for brief quotations in reviews. Printed in the United States of America Book design by Geoffrey Gatza First Edition ISBN: 9781935402527 Library of Congress Control Number: 2009925630 BlazeVOX [books] 14 Tremaine Ave Kenmore, NY 14217

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    Menu Fish hook with line cut

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    Returnables The sardine cans follow one another into the city while a poet relaxes all day, crosses your tracks, dots your landscape, and if you read one of his poems, youve read them all. Come out, come out, wherever. You are! The sardine cans follow one another out of the city. Your life is filled with a house and its tools, saturated with olive oil and prosody.

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    Fish Market Wrapping ourselves in newspaper to hide from ourselves each one of us is shipped back and forth, back and forth on subway cares until a cat cries of hunger.

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    The Blessing of the Fish

    Farmed in barrels where college degrees are cast without hook or line consumers range their freedom while through the peep sight of best business practices laws of lands execute.

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    Overhead Compartments Aluminum tubes juggled as high as 40,000 feet flush folk across terrain and bath water bodies. Sequined runway sirens alert pipefitter models Righty-Tighty to join I Loathe Loosie for the pleasures in face-to-face bedroom intercourses, relieving tent poles and leotards. Si and Stretch, when each pressurized yet unflappable cylindrical citizen hails, taxi.

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    Beach Toys International business men surf tsunamis. Be assured as a Sherpa.

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    Solutions Oil separates from thirst-quenching empathy. Shaken or stirred, respect anoints its own state.

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    Chiquita State In democratic chambers, oligarchs twist arms until soldiers mean business and ribs pump liquidity into barrels.

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    Sewer Department The open colonial baggage flows through the streets at the feet of the tourist who weighed in at touch down or gang plank. Resort rustlers round up imperial bellies to traipse gushing their crude sun and sand through backyards.

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