Practitioner Joy

Rich Murphys Practitioner Joy is the poets confrontation with his practice as a poet and at least in part his inevitable death. When outside Platos Cave capitalisms crisis horizon threatens with precarious neoliberalism Wendy Browns every conduct is economic conduct cyber algorithms and Shoshana Zuboffs I once was mine; now I am theirs and Yuval Noah Hararis and Stephen Hawkings Homo Deus (a new species of humans from the loins of the wealthy only) prophetic voices are needed in an effort to counter and perhaps change the narratives and the futures direction. This collection of poems attempts to do just that. It is an alternative voice offering a way forward.