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View in Bookstore<\/a><\/p>\n

Escritoire<\/em><\/a>
\nSheila E. Murphy<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Sheila E. Murphy’s Escritoire<\/em> continues to garner thoughtful reviews. Check out these samples and links.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daniel Barbiero writes in Arteidolia:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2026Murphy reaches out into the world and playfully acknowledges and accepts it for what it offers. She pays close attention to the ordinary, which in the right light can reveal an extraordinary sensual richness and solicit a resonant affective response. \u2026\u00a0 In the end, it\u2019s difficult to sum up a set of poems as formally and thematically varied as those in\u00a0Escritoire<\/i>\u00a0but \u2013 its self-deprecating irony aside \u2013 perhaps this line from \u201cI Never Knew\u201d comes closest: \u201cVocabulary seasoned with glints of wit and spice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rupert Loydell, writing for Tears in the Fence<\/a><\/em> (UK):<\/p>\n

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Sheila Murphy\u2019s poetry always managed to surprise this reader, with its unusual musicality and associative language, it\u2019s mix of seemingly distanced but also emotionally charged and possibly autobiographical or confessional content.\u00a0<\/span>Escritoire<\/span><\/i> is no exception, although I detect a new playfulness and self-awareness at work. \u2026 <\/span>Murphy\u2019s arrangement and rearrangement of these echoing and intertwining lines suggest counterpoint or a set of musical variations in which fixed melodies occur and reoccur in different harmonic and other contexts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Murphy’s musicality, both at the thematic and formal levels, is mentioned by most reviewers. Alan Catlin, in Misfit Magazine<\/a><\/em>, continues this theme, noting:<\/p>\n

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Reading Murphy is like listening to Bach, recapitulating fugues, themes introduced, explored, re-enforced by repetition until they become something entirely new.\u00a0 Few poets can do this but Murphy, a musician herself, most assuredly can.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And more reviews, for various publications, are in the works. Grab your copy<\/a> and see what they’re talking about.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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