{"product_id":"moon-country-michael-e-murphy-9781665786386","title":"Moon Country: New and Selected Poems","description":"Pity the poor plumeria tree: \u003cbr\u003e no white petals again this year;\u003cbr\u003e and again its green, oblong leaves\u003cbr\u003e fall before their prime, expose\u003cbr\u003e its skeletal frame like a desert fossil. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We hadn't asked all that much\u003cbr\u003e of the plumeria---neither the shade\u003cbr\u003e nor the elegance the others give---\u003cbr\u003e only that it be a privacy screen\u003cbr\u003e between our patio and the passersby. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Perhaps it thinks itself the orphan\u003cbr\u003e we'd adopted, the child with atavistic\u003cbr\u003e traits we could not recognize, the one\u003cbr\u003e whom teachers sent home with notes, \u003cbr\u003e the kid who missed the open goal, \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e the young man who left for the hills\u003cbr\u003e with The Wanderers---the son\u003cbr\u003e for whom we'd kill the fatted calf\u003cbr\u003e if only he'd come back home to us, \u003cbr\u003e be the new leaf on our plumeria tree. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his Moon Country poems, Michael E. Murphy spirits the reader off to exotic places likeIguazu Falls, the Bolshoi Theatre, Galleons Lap, the Agasawara archipelago in the westernPacific and back to drier ground in the Cholla Gardens of Joshua Tree Park. On the wingsof 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 lifestories. For that's what these Moon Country poems are-stories. The word poem comes fromthe Greek poiesis, the act of creating or imagining something, like a story. Murphy invitesreaders to relive his life with him through these little stories, these Moon Country poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael E. Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1665786388\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781665786386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Archway Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39d","brand":"Michael E. Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48089511887103,"sku":"9781665786386","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a64f7260-a6f9-4d4b-861d-3e31beb28a48.jpg?v=1769110730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/moon-country-michael-e-murphy-9781665786386","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}