Sostenuto (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781938521898)

"Throughout my life I have looked toward language for elevation and found that more potent than gravity." - Sheila E. Murphy Murphy's work has been a lifelong journey to find beauty and a kind of transcendence in life, in thought, in experience, and in language while at the same time including all the complexities, difficulties, and darkness from which any transcendence must arise. SOSTENUTO, a sequence of recent sonnets, is certainly no exception, and also has a wonderful angularity and edginess, an edginess embedded in a richness of diction and consciousness. The poems have a voice, a sensibility and a "story" or narrative current which is fully authentic. Part of that authenticity is sensed in the often cut-up (and at times surrealistic) nature of the writing, which is also amazingly smooth and flowing. There are storms, understandings and questionings running through these beautiful poems, which form true mirrors to the depths and heights of living. - John M. Bennett

Author: Sheila Murphy
ISBN-10: 1938521897
ISBN-13: 9781938521898
Publisher: Luna Bisonte Prods
Language: English
Published: 02/03/2023
Pages: 66
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d