Hemming flames: poems

• Main Author: Murphy, Patricia Colleen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Colorado State University. Libraries 2016
• Subjects: American poetry; Orca
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/177056

Winner of the 2016 Swenson Poetry Award, this collection explores themes of pain and loss as they emerge especially within a dysfunctional family. Includes a foreword by Stephen Dunn, American poet, teacher, and essayist, who was the judge for the 2016 award--provided by publisher. Losing Our Milk Teeth -- Bridges All Over the Room -- My Brother, Hoarding -- How the Body Moves -- Throwing the Proper Tantrums -- XVIIIE Arrondissement -- Immolate -- Cutlass Ciera -- Kitten -- My Armamentarium -- Is It the Sea You Hear in Me? -- Good Morning, Mediocrity -- Meet the Author -- Night Falling, Czechoslovakia -- Edison's Medicine -- Why I Burned Down Namdaemun Gate -- High Hopes, Bad Habits -- Turkish Get-Ups -- Feeding Peeping Tom -- Scrotum and Bone -- The Year of Our Comorbidity -- The Princess of Creeping -- Reading Sexton in Phuket -- Bulb -- Murmur -- The Birth of No -- Midnight at Orca Cannery -- Letter from the Psych Ward, Hospital Kashenko -- My Mittelschmerz -- Arch on a Rung -- This Is Not a Pipe -- Song of a Misanthrope -- Lunatic Years -- Halloween in the Tank -- Incommunicado -- From The Book of Attacks -- Songs in Kiswahili -- Break in the Chain -- Flatline -- How I Learned That Everyone Is Ridiculous -- Where Are You, Gravity? -- Everyone is Eviscerated -- Liminal -- Memory as Diary -- Take the Late Flight -- On Being Orphaned -- After Rumi's Birdwings -- Crave -- What Flickers -- Perennial -- Rank Bitch -- Dad's Last Entrechat -- Crushings -- Bizarre Part -- On Being Born -- Climbing -- Not Having Them -- The Linger Museum -- My Trifecta of Offenses -- With a Whimper