TETH - Softcover

Murphy, Sheila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0925904058 ISBN 13: 9780925904058

Publisher: Chax Press, 1991

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Sheila Murphy's other books include With House Silence (Stride Press), Sad Isn't the Color of Dream (Stride Press), Obeli: 21 Contemplations (Pygmy Forest Press), Memory Transposed Into the Key of C ( Mochersatz Press), the forthcoming 18/81 (Gesture Press), and a forthcoming book from SUN/gemini Press. In 1990 she participated in the Chax Press Residency program along with Gil Ott, Leslie Scalapino, and Karen Kelley. She lives in Phoenix where she works at the University of Phoenix, plays flute, and co-coordinates the Scotsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series.

Review

Abacus Along
About Gleams Happily From Theory
Accept Then Weave The Center
Auto Androgeny Impala
Bandaid Core Jalopy
Borscht Akimbo During Vodka
Bundle Of Sticks
Canoe Shaped Heaven
Casual With Words
Chance Equal Chance
Civilization Forms Blind Culture
Club Of Trailer Park What Ifs
Commandments Shirk Their Duty To Be Open
Critique How I Make Love
Day's Work Not Control
Digital Clockface Summons Me
Early Morning Verse
Echo Chamber Fortitude
Equal A Range Heals
Familiar Breath
Gendarmes Inside Remember
Heal Every Synonym Proceed
Hear Reasons Imperfection
Her Rights Illuminate
Here Where Thought Culls
Hysterical Post-rain Mockingbirds
I Sit Alone At Table
Ideogram
Indebtedness Tips Guilt
Insinuate A Thing Must Dream Itself
Inspires Regret
Intimate What Lasts
Is She Radiant
Junk Drawer Surfaces
Learn The Womb Can't Love
Leave Me A Quiet Will
Leaves I Have Attracted
The Little Depot With Some Moss In It
Little To Point Out
Logic Mostly Snatches Birds
Long Distance Breastmilk
Looking Inward Is A Mountain
Mahatma Fox I Call Her Reverentially
Maybe We Project Our Little Village
Mildly Newpaperish Lingo
Monarch Butterfly
Natural As Iambic Pent
Not Supernatural Carefully Endorses
Not To Announce Or Safen
Nouveau Instruments
Ocean Is Healthful Wine
Patio Contains
Per Our Agreement Thistling
Possible Use Of Energy Possible Park
Practice Makes The Thing
Preambular Morning
Rampion He Called Her
The Rate Of Speed Time Passage
Refrigerator Transforms
Response Is Very Tidy
Running Water The Philosophy
Saint Comes Co-dependently
Sends Memorandum With The Singular
Shock Absorbers Don't Exist
Sore Tributaries Rearrange Themselves
Sparta Wakes Heaven In My Hand
Spell Disrepair
Starts To Ease Off
Symphonic Breeze I Really See
Tavern A Home
Third Personsingular Object
Tome Is Wisecrack Sketched Alive
Trousers And Holster With Tools
Try To Build Game
Violet Colored Violets
Virgin Prophet Indigo Quite Deep Eyes
Virtually Pinned To Incapacity
Wake To Disrobe Night
Warzone Makes Temperate Peace
White Walls Sift Rosary
Yacht Floats On 80 Proof
--Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

Edition details

• Publisher: Chax Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0925904058
• ISBN 13: 9780925904058
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 92