Timothy Murphy's Devotions revives this major but neglected poetic genre with variety and amplitude. In over two hundred short poems, Murphy explores the vicissitudes of modern spiritual life. Some of the poems are inspirational, celebrating the joyous mysteries of faith. Others confront the sorrows and failures of contemporary life presenting unvarnished the painful dramas of sin, despair, repentance, and redemption. Murphy celebrates the saints, but he has not forgotten the battered, the drunkards, the sinners, among whom the poet numbers himself. In these poems, the drama of redemption is not abstract but personal. Dana Gioia, Past Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts

Devotions

Literature & Fiction

Dana Gioia

Timothy Murphy

Poetry

North Dakota State University Press

When Timothy Murphy's long-awaited collection of hunting poetry, Hunter's Log, Volumes II &amp; III, went into production, he was thriving and making preparations for a new hunting season. Alas, this glorious continuation of his original Hunter s Log is published posthumously. Timothy Iver Murphy scout, hiker, sailor, farmer, entrepreneur, and hunter of Fargo, North Dakota, passed away in his home on Saturday, June 30, 2018, at the age of sixty-seven. His last two years were resplendent with his outpouring of poetry at a phenomenal pace, as though he suspected his time to write and to hunt was running short. In Hunter's Log, Volumes II &amp; III, you ll find Tim s love for all the rites and tribulations of rising at O Dark Thirty, God O'Clock to take his dogs out for training or hunting and for days that conclude with a pheasant gumbo steaming on the stove.

Hunter's Log Volume II & III

Last Poems is a veritable journal intime, albeit one that Timothy Murphy wished to share with his readers. In his unmistakable voice, and often in stark language almost too painful to read, Tim chronicles his physical, spiritual, and emotional life during his final months, beginning on the day of his cancer diagnosis in early January 2018, through his various treatments, and ultimately his decision to withdraw from clinical trials. . . . Let [Last Poems] be my Last Will and Testament, Murphy writes in "Envoi." And so it is. Last Poems bears witness--with grace, grit, and gratitude--to the life and loves of this major North American poet.

Last Poems

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Devotions

Hunter's Log Volume II & III

Last Poems