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| A Book Called Rats |
| Miguel Murphy |
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| Winner of the 2002 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry |
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Poetry
120 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-59766-017-4
Paper: $14.95
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Top choice for Lynx House, by a long shot, is A Book Called Rats. It's a scrappy, outrageous, inventive collection that should leap off the shelf and keep inviting itself into the hands of readers hungry for new poetry. I can't wait to get a printed copy! That will be a great pleasure, as well as an achievement for the press.
- Michael Heffernan, final judge
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The recipient of a Swarthout Award and an Academy of American Poets Prize, Miguel Murphy is an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame's Phoenix Institute and holds an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University. His poems and reviews appear in RAIN TAXI, Blackbird, Hayden's Ferry Review and others. He lives in Venice Beach, California and teaches at Santa Monica College.
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| Praise for A Book Called Rats |
"Miguel Murphy''s always exceptional poems show his work with characterization is invariably interesting and often surprising, perhaps even to the poet himself, finding a symbiosis with contemporary narrative that is both compelling and disturbing. Consistently singular, edgy, and haunting, these pieces operate best at an intuitive level, giving the reader something that gets under the skin. The struggles in these poems are literarily courageous ones."
-Alberto Rios, National Book Award finalist for The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body |
"A Book Called Rats iis a stunning collection, full of dark eroticism and haunting images that pull the reader into a world both beautiful and dangerous. The human condition doesn't change, but suddenly, in this sensuous, charged book with its perfect music, we are fascinated anew."
-Beckian Fritz Goldberg, author of The Book of Accident
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