The corporate state plays
democracy while integrating fiefdoms.
The alarm numbs each subject
to fear while every charade
throughout the global prison
records weather on futile niches.
Using a canned laughter process
and a corkscrew, darker after-hours
drill inmates on buying a sunny day.
By Rich Murphy
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Rich Murphy's credits include the 2008 Gival Press Poetry Award for his book-length manuscript “Voyeur;” a first book The Apple in the Monkey Tree; chapbooks Great Grandfather, Family Secret, Hunting and Pecking, Phoems for Mobile Vices, and Rescue Lines; poems in Rolling Stone, Poetry, Grand Street, Trespass, War Literature and Art, Tryst, The View from Here, New Letters, Pank, Segue, Big Bridge, EOAGH, E.Ratio, Borderlands, foam:e, and Confrontation; and essays in Folly Magazine, The International Journal of the Humanities, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics Poetry / Literature and Culture, Fringe, and Journal of Ecocriticism.
Derek Walcott has remarked for the cover of his book Voyeur: “Mr. Murphy is a very careful craftsman in his work, a patient and testing intelligence, one of those writers who knows precisely what he wants his style to achieve. His poetry is quiet but packed, carefully wrought, not surrealistically wild, and its range not limited but deliberately narrow. It takes aim.” Erin McKnight’s review may be read at Prick of the Spindle: http://www.prickofthespindle.com/reviews/3.4/small_presses/murphy/voyeur.htm. Alvin Malpaya’s review may be read at Rattle http://rattle.com/blog/2010/08/voyeur-by-rich-murphy/. Janelle Adsit’s review in The Pedestal Magazine may be read at http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/gallery.php?item=11965. Erica Goss’ review may be found in Main Street Rag, winter 2010 issue.
“Body of Evidence” was 2011finalist Eudaimonia Poetry Review Chapbook Prize, and “Crib Sheets” was 2011 finalist Teacher’s Voice Poetry Chapbook Prize. He lives in Marblehead, MA.
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