Songs of Crocus Hill

Most of us wish that our parents and grandparents had left more about themselves and what moved them for us to read and talk about today.

In Songs of Crocus Hill, author Michael E. Murphy presents a poetry collection that focuses on memory poems—candle-lit vignettes related to the memoir genre. The people, places, and experiences he imagines are drawn from his years growing up in the Crocus Hill district of St. Paul, from his experiences as a parent, and from his travels abroad as an intern...