The Last Normal Year: Poems by Kevin Murphy

Just in time for the end of history, The Last Normal Year features new, selected, and previously undetected pieces by celebrated Bellingham poet Kevin Murphy. With nods to the beats, the bards, the surrealists, and the blues, Murphy's approach is exuberant, comic, and slightly mad. Chocolate, carrots, global economies, scuba divers, and the dangerous whirling stars of the desert sky appear in cameo roles. Intimations of irrational forces and traces of blue-speckled fish may be present. This book aspires to provide many of the same benefits as around-the-world travel at a fraction of the cost.

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The Last Normal Year: Poems by Kevin Murphy

Just in time for the end of history, The Last Normal Year features new, selected, and previously undetected pieces by celebrated Bellingham poet Kevin Murphy. With nods to the beats, the bards, the surrealists, and the blues, Murphy's approach is exuberant, comic, and slightly mad. Chocolate, carrots, global economies, scuba divers, and the dangerous whirling stars of the desert sky appear in cameo roles. Intimations of irrational forces and traces of blue-speckled fish may be present. This book aspires to provide many of the same benefits as around-the-world travel at a fraction of the cost.

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The Last Normal Year: Poems by Kevin Murphy

The Last Normal Year: Poems by Kevin Murphy

by Kevin Murphy
The Last Normal Year: Poems by Kevin Murphy

The Last Normal Year: Poems by Kevin Murphy

by Kevin Murphy

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Overview

Just in time for the end of history, The Last Normal Year features new, selected, and previously undetected pieces by celebrated Bellingham poet Kevin Murphy. With nods to the beats, the bards, the surrealists, and the blues, Murphy's approach is exuberant, comic, and slightly mad. Chocolate, carrots, global economies, scuba divers, and the dangerous whirling stars of the desert sky appear in cameo roles. Intimations of irrational forces and traces of blue-speckled fish may be present. This book aspires to provide many of the same benefits as around-the-world travel at a fraction of the cost.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781958808399
Publisher: Sidekick Press
Publication date: 04/01/2025
Pages: 138
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Kevin Murphy has been performing his poetry of subversive whimsy for over 45 years, often accompanying himself on guitar or percussion. He is the author of A Beautiful Chaos Demands Energy (2007) and has released two CDs of poetry, Between Onions and Oxygen (2002) and The Bird of Pure Midnight (2015). He is poet-in-residence at the Chuckanut Radio Hour, and is a winner of the Bellingham Mayor Arts Award. Kevin was born in Germany, grew up in upstate New York, and moved to Western Washington in 1979. He lives in Bellingham with his wife, Jeannie Gray.
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