| He was sent two poems from a Miss Ethel Malley, who wrote saying they were found among her brother's possessions after his death. |
| Journeys, wanderings, separations, and a sense of homelessness are elements of many of the poems. |
| I love mixing genres, writing essays and kids' books and short stories as well as poems. |
| Murphy can use other preindustrial crafts as subjects and analogues for similarly well-made poems. |
| Her comments in interviews and at readings, likewise, reveal the startling literalness of her apparently abstract, difficult poems. |
| Sometimes the readers do feel shocked and startled by the abrupt and terse nature of some of these poems, but the effect is rewarding. |
