Research Catalog

Title

Mortal stakes ; Faint thunder : new poems / by Timothy Murphy 2002-2009 ; foreword by Clay S. Jenkinson ; preface by X.J. Kennedy.

Author

Murphy, Timothy, 1951-2018

Publication

Washburn, N.D. Dakota Institute Press of the Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Jenkinson, Clay.
• Kennedy, X. J.

Description

xxi, 95 p., [3] leaves of plates (col.) : port.; 24 cm.

Summary

Timothy Murphy lives on the Great Plains. He has been a grain and hog farmer and, like Wallace Stevens, an insurance salesman, but the twin joys of his life are poetry and hunting. Murphy's poetry explores faith, family, spirituality, death, farming, friendship, love, and sexuality, yet it is profoundly rooted in place -- the Red River watershed in North Dakota and western Minnesota. He tries to make sense of the wide sweep of the northern plains, to explore how place shapes poetry and how poetry shapes one’s experience of place.

Alternative Title

Faint thunder

Subject

• Poets, American
• American poetry
• Great Plains > Poetry
• Red River of the North Watershed > Poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780982559765 (hardcover)
• 0982559763 (hardcover)
• 9780982559772 (pbk.)
• 0982559771 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011926189

OCLC

• 714723262
• SCSB-11752866

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library