{"product_id":"moon-country-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","title":"Moon Country: New and Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael E. Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePity the Plumeria Tree\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePity the poor plumeria tree: \u003cbr\u003eno white petals again this year;\u003cbr\u003eand again its green, oblong leaves \u003cbr\u003efall before their prime, expose\u003cbr\u003eits skeletal frame like a desert fossil.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe hadn't asked all that much \u003cbr\u003eof the plumeria---neither the shade \u003cbr\u003enor the elegance the others give--- \u003cbr\u003eonly that it be a privacy screen \u003cbr\u003ebetween our patio and the passersby.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerhaps it thinks itself the orphan\u003cbr\u003ewe'd adopted, the child with atavistic\u003cbr\u003etraits we could not recognize, the one\u003cbr\u003ewhom teachers sent home with notes, \u003cbr\u003ethe kid who missed the open goal, \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ethe young man who left for the hills\u003cbr\u003ewith The Wanderers---the son\u003cbr\u003efor whom we'd kill the fatted calf\u003cbr\u003eif only he'd come back home to us, \u003cbr\u003ebe the new leaf on our plumeria tree.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his Moon Country poems, Michael E. Murphy spirits the reader off to exotic places like Iguazu Falls, the Bolshoi Theatre, Galleons Lap, the Ogasawara archipelago in the western Pacific and back to drier ground in the Cholla Gardens of Joshua Tree Park. On the wings of these and other poetic flights, the reader accompanies Murphy as he comes of age in St. Paul, raises a family and develops an international business law practice in Minneapolis, then returns in retirement to St. Paul-and to California's Coachella Valley to write his life stories. For that's what these Moon Country poems are-stories. The word poem comes from the Greek poiesis, the act of creating or imagining something, like a story. Murphy invites readers to relive his life with him through these little stories, these Moon Country poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 14, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56101431279921,"sku":"9781665786386","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/hD3WFIO-Q89781665786386.webp?v=1788449800","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/moon-country-new-and-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}