Disheveled Histories

<p>The third book of poetry by Reno Nevada based poet Michelle Murphy. Pulitzer Prize winner Diane Seuss sings the praises of Murphy's new book: The poems in Michelle Murphy's <em>Disheveled Histories</em> both echo the dishevelment and bring order to family history personal history the natural history of the body and the land on which it resides where [t]hese rapids spit out / trailer hitch tangled lures / dime-size locket crumbled jacket and where even a butterfly / can anger God. Murphy uncovers a sort of defiant eternity in her poems though not the easy kind. Regarding a brother who takes his own life by leaping from the Golden Gate bridge she writes: Even your father his / history moth-holed / almost laughs when / your urn refuses / to sink under the waves. / Nothing ends. Michelle Murphy has written a beautiful gutsy and restorative collection.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p><br></p>