When I Wear Bob Kaufman's Eyes

<p><em>When I Wear Bob Kaufman's Eyes </em>by Thomas Murphy is a unique look from inside the mind of Tom outward at the landscape of America today. He pulls no punches as he rages against injustice while finding a sliver of community.</p><p><br></p><p>When I Wear Bob Kaufman's Eyes is an intimate poetry of witness a celebration of nature language and art. Lush yet economical piercing it explores breath and space the verse is often projective. In a painful and playful study of experience an elegiac reverie never forgetting a mission to testify what love and peace have met in conflict in America Tom Murphy is injured angered and still transcendent. He offers us a forgiving embrace of culture a world in crisis. He introduces us to the characters that inform our everyday a journal poet serving up a daily dreambook never shying away from the nightmare reminding us our/brok en/ hi story /mir rors/ u s. This is poetry of the 21st Century we do not drown in aesthetics or appeasement. There is a strong personal voice that pummels through abstraction seizes the unknowable and the unanswerable through the magic of juxtaposition and awakens and heals. In this book of poems there is a narrative that embraces truth and beauty is there all along or arrives before we know it. This book is a life. Michael Rothenberg</p><p><br></p><p>When I Wear Bob Kaufman's Eyes is an intimate poetry of witness a celebration of nature language and art. Lush yet economical piercing it explores breath and space the verse is often projective. In a painful and playful study of experience an elegiac reverie never forgetting a mission to testify what love and peace have met in conflict in America Tom Murphy is injured angered and still transcendent. He offers us a forgiving embrace of culture a world in crisis. He introduces us to the characters that inform our everyday a journal poet serving up a daily dreambook never shying away from the nightmare reminding us our/brok en/ hi story /mir rors/ u s. This is poetry of the 21st Century we do not drown in aesthetics or appeasement. There is a strong personal voice that pummels through abstraction seizes the unknowable and the unanswerable through the magic of juxtaposition and awakens and heals. In this book of poems there is a narrative that embraces truth and beauty is there all along or arrives before we know it. This book is a life. Michael Rothenberg</p>