Sing Sing Sing: Poems

by Bruce Murphy

Sing, Sing, Sing is unlike any recent first collection by an American poet. It goes against the grain of contemporary fashion by replacing prosaic narrative with a lyricism both symbolic and mysterious. This poet can appreciate experience as "the open/End of a bag fill/With ordinary things," yet also he has an ear for "a watch that goes on ticking/Underground," the shadow of history that lies across the present. Murphy manifests a sense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814754619
• ISBN13: 9780814754610
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"