[email protected] 2021-2022 Corpus Christi Poet Laureate Facebook-f Instagram Youtube Linkedin Purchase The poetic canvas of Pearl is as vast as the poet’s extensive learning. The thrust of the book is a series of achingly poignant poems about the poet’s early life in California. Gifted with a prodigious memory for detail and an expansive heart, Murphy probes […]

Calling to mind the struggles of Tobias Wolff and A. J. Dubus III, Murphy carefully examines his harrowing boyhood, the corrosive effects of drug culture, urban blight and political dysfunction, the saving grace of mentors, his later roles as poet, scholar, teacher, traveler, husband, and father, his wry encounters with Eugene Ruggles and Charle...

Dec 31, 2024 · Tom Murphy is the 2021 - 2022 Croups Christi Poet Laureate. His books include Pearl, American History, and the upcoming Snake Woman Moon.

Feb 11, 2020 · The poetic canvas of Pearl is as vast as the poet's extensive learning. The thrust of the book is a series of achingly poignant poems about the poet's early life in California. Gifted with a prodigious memory for detail

Tom Murphy’s books: Pearl (FlowerSong Press 2020), American History (Slough Press, 2017), co-edited Stone Renga (Tail Feather, 2017). Murphy is Langdon Review’s 2021 Writer-In-Residence.

The poetic canvas of Pearl is as vast as the poet's extensive learning. The thrust of the book is a series of achingly poignant poems about the poet's early life in California.

Gifted with a prodigious memory for detail and an expansive heart, Murphy probes a litany of seminal life events including rebelliousness, drug and alcohol abuse, friendship, intellectual inquisitiveness, creativity, suicide, loss, and human sensuality, and he does so with extraordinary emotional honesty and courage.

Gifted with a prodigious memory for detail and an expansive heart, Murphy probes a litany of seminal life events including rebelliousness, drug and alcohol abuse, friendship, intellectual inquisitiveness, creativity, suicide, loss, and human sensuality, and he does so with extraordinary emotional honesty and courage.

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