Meme Measure - Murphy, Rich
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German philosopher Byung-Chul Han defines poetry as ""luxury in language,"" and where Andre Breton in his Manifesto on Surrealism claims that ""only the marvelous is beautiful,"" Han states, ""I cannot conceive of the beautiful apart from the foreign. All genuine beauty is foreign."" The marvelous, the foreign transport the reader to the experience of being alive. Poetry, for the author, remains an attempt to slow the reader down and pull the reader out of the humdrum world of platitude and cliche of everyday language, providing a foreign lodge, a ""house of being"" and dwelling with ironic…mehr

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German philosopher Byung-Chul Han defines poetry as ""luxury in language,"" and where Andre Breton in his Manifesto on Surrealism claims that ""only the marvelous is beautiful,"" Han states, ""I cannot conceive of the beautiful apart from the foreign. All genuine beauty is foreign."" The marvelous, the foreign transport the reader to the experience of being alive. Poetry, for the author, remains an attempt to slow the reader down and pull the reader out of the humdrum world of platitude and cliche of everyday language, providing a foreign lodge, a ""house of being"" and dwelling with ironic wit: the sublime poem. From beginning to the end, it provides a world of thought to expose the contemporary cynicism and foster vision for tomorrow. The seventy-four poems in Meme Measure have as an initial impetus Rene Girard's writing on mimetic theory, mimetic rivalry, and scapegoat. I see the collection as lodges for dwelling on the various implications for us today, while attempting to plumb emotion as subjective and objective within Homo sapiens.
Autorenporträt
Rich Murphy's poetry collections have won the Poetry Prize at Press Americana twice, for Americana (2013) and The Left Behind (2020), and won the Gival Press Poetry Prize, for Voyeur (2008). His book Prophetic Voice Now and his poetry collection Practitioner Joy were published by Wipf and Stock in 2020. He has published eight other poetry collections. He has taught writing and literature at colleges and universities in the Northeast and is currently a guest lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.