Winner of the Blue Lynx Prize Recipient of a Swarthout Award and an Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as the Blue Lynx Prize,

A Book Called Rats: Poems (Lynx House Press)

Literature & Fiction

Murphy, Miguel

Poetry

Lynx House Press

Poetry. LGBT Studies. "The dark eroticism that inhabits Miguel Murphy's DETAINEE becomes eerily familiar as each startling poem explores the urges, the instincts, and the passions that bare their teeth—'what is love without arrows?' Human nature's private hues are visceral and violent, sensual and predatory, and Murphy's provocative verse dares to imagine them undisguised, as if to tell us, "You don't even know / the beast who you are.'"—Rigoberto González

Detainee

Barrow Street Press

About the Author\nMiguel Murphy is the author of SHOREDITCH (Barrow Street Press, 2021), DETAINEE (Barrow Street Press, 2016), and A Book Called Rats, winner of The Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry. He lives in Southern California where he teaches at Santa Monica College.\nPoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Miguel Murphy's poems--terse, grave, erudite--offer gleaming surfaces for a reader to savor: traces of a heroic, louche tradition, where Novarro, Genet, Lorca, Pasolini, and other role models still make possible new discoveries about martyrdom and ecstasy. In SHOREDITCH, we cruise the epitaphs, reenact the melodramas, and taste the paradoxes, almost Sapphic in their concentration, their hieratic fruit-forwardness. Murphy tailors the pleasure-pain conundrum in a sublimely minimalist style that I want always to be wearing."--Wayne Koestenbaum

Shoreditch

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A Book Called Rats: Poems (Lynx House Press)

Detainee

Shoreditch