Jerome Murphy Archives

August 17, 2016 5 min read

Xavier’s spectral invocations derive no small power from an eye for simultaneity: between past and present, life and death, and for events separated only by geographical distance Read More

‘This Life Now’ by Michael Broder

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

July 2, 2015 3 min read

“The past is a foreign country,” wrote novelist L. P. Hartley in 1953’s The Go-Between. “They do things differently there.”...

‘Trespass’ by Thomas Dooley

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

December 22, 2014 3 min read

Dooley has a particular heartbreaking family story to relate, of children abused, of the traumatized adults who find themselves in closets both metaphorical and literal Read More

‘The Road to Emmaus’ by Spencer Reece

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

September 17, 2014 3 min read

"In Emmaus’ obsessively catalogued auction house, human figures are dwarfed by time and failure, and yet rendered oddly, touchingly precious..." Read More

‘Nefarious’ by Emanuel Xavier

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

April 27, 2014 4 min read

Nefarious is a testament whose utterance often feels less printed than voiced by a cool gust pushing newspapers along the city’s now-gentrified streets and renovated piers, where hustlers and other outcasts of society once made defiant gestures of survival. Read More

‘Metaphysical Dog’ by Frank Bidart

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

September 24, 2013 3 min read

Metaphysical Dog is a grandly, at times depressingly valedictory collection... Read More

‘Sacrilegion’ by L. Lamar Wilson

Jerome Murphy

Poetry Reviews

June 15, 2013 4 min read

It’s far too easy to see an elision of religion and sacrilege in the title of L. Lamar Wilson’s bombshell of a collection, Sacrilegion (Carolina Wren Press), and thereby overlook the third member of a trinity: legion. Read More