I’ve read a considerable number of poetry collections subtitled “New and Selected Poems” or “Collected Poems.” But it was only reading “Swoon: New & Selected Poems” by Erin Murphy that I realized that such a collection could also be a biography.
Murphy has assembled poems from 11 previously published collections plus a few new ones. The result is a collective story of a life, from childhood memories, through young adulthood, the arrival of children, changes in relationships, the deaths of friends, the music enjoyed, travel, vacations, worries about physical appearance, observations about celebrities.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
The chain ferry – poem by Sonja Benskin Mesher.
Emily Dickinson, buttercups, and death – Padraig O Tuana at Poetry Unbound.
“The Waste Land,” poem by T.S. Eliot – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Uncharted – poem by Bethany Lee at Every Day Poems.
Crossing the Trestle – poem by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell at Rabbit Room Poetry.
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