{"product_id":"among-the-enigmas","title":"Among the Enigmas","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAmong the Enigmas\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRobert Jesse Murphy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781948017527\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDOS Madres Pr\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2019\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e61\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eSigned by the author. Inscribed to Edward Halsey Foster.  Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003ePoetry. To spend time with Robert Murphy's AMONG THE ENIGMAS is to be in the presence of a great soul. At the center of Murphy's vision--for he is, make no mistake, a visionary poet in the line of Blake, in touch with truths that exist far beyond the page--is a battle between stasis and dynamism, between appearance and reality, between Truth and a diversity of truths. In his stunningly bleak psalm, 'As if Cattle, ' Murphy observes the herd in 'bland bowed calm' as long as its 'hunger, thirst, or fear is slaked, '--that is, until it meets its mortal fate. 'Jumping Jehoshaphat!' he exclaims in 'The Appearance of it All, ' one of the volume's finest poems, 'Only a Holy Fool \/ Would come down here' to attempt to reason with common sense and the world of appearances. While Murphy's poems are animated by a dynamic spirit, they're thoroughly skeptical of received truths. That skepticism breeds a black humor and a wild, Joycean paronomasia. The punning Bursts forth in Murphy's major sequence of nine 'Imp' poems, which importunately explore, in the persona of a Socratic inchling\/inkling, various imponderables, impositions, impostures, and a great deal more. Adding to the serious fun is the engrossing artwork of David Golder, which engages with, rather than illustrates, Murphy's verse.--David M. K\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"DOS Madres Pr","offers":[{"title":"Among the Enigmas | Robert Jesse Murphy | Paperback | 9781948017527 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks R 1757407","offer_id":49157227872408,"sku":"1757407","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81n1es1zlOL.jpg?v=1779750084","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/among-the-enigmas","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}