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Many Congratulations Sheila! - Peter On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Blue Lion Books announces a new hardback book by Sheila E. Murphy, > COLLECTED > CHAPBOOKS (1981 - 2002). A collection of all Murphy's chapbooks issued > during that period, many out of print and now available in a beautiful > hardcover edition. > "For three decades, Sheila E. Murphy has been been one of the master > architects of American syntax. Those who have read her poems only in > magazines or chapbooks have no idea of their scope, the scale and the depth > of her work. For those readers, this collection will be a revelation. This > is a great book!" --- Ron Silliman > > "Sheila E. Murphy is indeed a virtuoso bird, one who takes flight through > language at the slightest provocation, carrying her readers with her on > long > poetic journey. These poems are about linguistic experience, about music on > the page and in the head, about ideas approached from surprising angles and > made anew, about renewal and revival. Over the last twenty five years I > have > continually migrated towards Sheila's approachable, lyrical and engaging > experiments, basking in the sun-drenched visions she has gathered and made > from the worlds and words about her. Collected Chapbooks is an overdue > delight, a tribute and a publishing event." --- Rupert Loydell > > http://www.lulu.com/content/2251616 > > is the web-address for ordering this book. The book has much to merit > purchasing a copy to enrich one's experience of contemporary poetry. In > reading this book, you will be amazed at the variety of her poetic > discourse, no doubt, in paraphrase, falling in love along with the the > spell > of her bright syntax. >