Timothy Murphy is a major American poet who lives on the Great Plains. A fascinating and complicated man and a child of the northern prairie, he writes deceptively simple poetry. He studied with Robert Penn Warren at Yale, who passed him on to Richard Wilbur with a note saying, "Because he's the best man we've got." Murphy likens his poetry to the work of Robert Frost, and, like Frost, he prefers to work in rhyme. This double book, Mortal Stakes and Faint Thunder , is the first of several volumes of Murphy's poetry to be ...
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Timothy Murphy is a major American poet who lives on the Great Plains. A fascinating and complicated man and a child of the northern prairie, he writes deceptively simple poetry. He studied with Robert Penn Warren at Yale, who passed him on to Richard Wilbur with a note saying, "Because he's the best man we've got." Murphy likens his poetry to the work of Robert Frost, and, like Frost, he prefers to work in rhyme. This double book, Mortal Stakes and Faint Thunder , is the first of several volumes of Murphy's poetry to be published by the Dakota Institute Press.
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