Synopsis
When Timothy Murphy's long-awaited collection of hunting poetry, Hunter's Log, Volumes II & III, went into production, he was thriving and making preparations for a new hunting season. Alas, this glorious continuation of his original Hunter s Log is published posthumously. Timothy Iver Murphy scout, hiker, sailor, farmer, entrepreneur, and hunter of Fargo, North Dakota, passed away in his home on Saturday, June 30, 2018, at the age of sixty-seven. His last two years were resplendent with his outpouring of poetry at a phenomenal pace, as though he suspected his time to write and to hunt was running short. In Hunter's Log, Volumes II & III, you ll find Tim s love for all the rites and tribulations of rising at O Dark Thirty, God O'Clock to take his dogs out for training or hunting and for days that conclude with a pheasant gumbo steaming on the stove.
About the Author
Timothy Iver Murphy of Fargo, North Dakota, passed away in his home on Saturday, June 30, 2018, at the age of sixty-seven. He was born in Hibbing, Minnesota, on January 10, 1951. Raised in Moorhead, Minnesota, he was active in high school speech and debate and graduated from Moorhead High School in 1968 as president of his senior class. Tim was an Eagle Scout and member of the Order of the Arrow. He worked summers at Camp Wilderness near Park Rapids, Minnesota, as a scout craft aide and a commissioner. He attended Yale University, pursuing his interest in poetry and undertaking a tutorial with Robert Penn Warren. He was named Scholar of the House in Poetry and graduated from Yale with a BA in 1972. Tim joined his father in the life insurance, pension, and estate planning business, V.R. Murphy and Sons, Inc., winning numerous national sales awards. His entrepreneurial interests led to his raising equity capital for partnerships in a number of local companies: Timco Farms, Bell Farms, Orchard Glen Development, DakTech, and Bytespeed LLC. Tim loved hiking, sailing, farming, and hunting with his black Labs. All were inspiration for his poetry, which was his great passion in life. A fascinating and complicated man, he wrote deceptively simple poetry exploring universal themes: faith, family, spirituality, death, farming, friendship. His work is rooted in place the Red River of the North, North Dakota, and the Great Plains. His poetry is published in prominent journals including Poetry, Quadrant, Hudson Review, New Criterion, Chronicles, Alabama Literary Review, and Gray's Sporting Journal. His books include The Deed of the Gift (Story Line Press 1998), Set the Ploughshare Deep (Ohio University Press 2002), Mortal Stakes and Faint Thunder (Dakota Institute Press 2011), Hunter's Log (Dakota Institute Press 2011), and Devotions (North Dakota State University Press 2017). He collaborated with his long-time partner Alan Sullivan on a translation of Beowulf (Longman 2004).
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