You Too Were Once on Fire - Paperback
You Too Were Once on Fire - Paperback
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by Peter E. Murphy (Author)
Murphy takes you on a journey through the cosmos, an intergalactic dad asking philosophical questions to ponder, but the fire is in moments of eclipse where the "I" is examined through a microscope, and the speaker is "tided / into the fog," admitting blindness. New Jersey references to zombie-like traffic jams and Atlantic City Boardwalk realizations underscore the harsh realities that this collection welcomes into its universe with naked introspection. Shoreline floods are connected to both Galileo's visions and myopia, and when contemplating dust, the use of second person doesn't hide the speaker's own fear of "an ego so fierce, it sucks you / into its own black hole." The "Bad History" that spurred many of these works, from butchering times to no less gruesome Insta influencer moments, ends with a star wish to "be somebody." Murphy is clearly still immersed in flames and invites us to share in the warmth, and the burn.
-Grisel Y. Acosta
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