Last Poems

Last Poems, by Timothy Murphy

As described by the collection editor, poet and translator Catherine Chandler, Last Poems is a veritable journal intime, albeit one that Timothy Murphy wished to share with his readers. In his unmistakable voice, and often in stark language almost too painful to read, Tim chronicles his physical, spiritual, and emotional life during his final months, beginning on the day of his cancer diagnosis in early January 2018, through his various treatments, and ultimately his decision to withdraw from clinical trials. . . . Let [Last Poems] be my Last Will and Testament, Murphy writes in "Envoi." And so it is. Last Poems bears witness—with grace, grit, and gratitude—to the life and loves of this major North American poet. Hardcover.

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Timothy Murphy is a major American poet who lives on the Great Plains. He was fascinating and complicated man, a child of North Dakota, who wrote deceptively simple poetry. He is widely known and admired in Anglophone poetry circles around the world. Murphy has been a grain and hog farmer, and, like Wallace Stevens, an insurance man, but the twin joys of his life were poetry and hunting. He surcumed to his illness on June 30, 2018, but his brother Jim Murphy compiled these last works along with his other book Hunter’s Log: Volumes II & III. 

 

ISBN: 978-1-946163-39-4

Page Count: 194

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Publication Year: 2021

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