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(More customer reviews)I love words, but don't often read poetry these days (after my affairs with Dorothy Parker and Edna St. Vincent Millay back in college). After reading Voyeur, I am compelled to write my first review on Amazon. These poems are largely about women, relationships, and power. They are thought-provoking and provocative. I had to read them several times -- firstly, out loud to hear the words trip over themselves; secondly, to attempt an understanding; and lastly, to determine what they mean only to me. Certain phrases really spoke to me and would surprise me by popping into my head throughout my day, like little pieces of hard candy that I would roll around on my tongue. Oh, there are so many, but I love the phrase "We sip our due from each other's shoes to free our mattress of sides" and the bon mot "A toast and traffic jam." I believe that great poetry challenges readers to learn more about themselves and provide insights not normally gained through our day to day lives. Having been personally surprised by these poems, this book achieves exactly that -- words, ideas, paradigms that pull you out of yourself and give you back something deeply personal at the same time. I highly recommend this book and hope you enjoy it as much as I have!
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Winner of the 2009 Los Angeles Book Festival Award for Poetry & Winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award --"Voyeur is a work of vision and virtuosity. Concerned with relationships, marriage, sex and power, the poetry is dense, rapid, dazzling, the voice commanding, and the speaker charismatic. Combining multifaceted imagery with sharply angled enjambments and jammed syntax, Rich Murphy creates poems that are like broken glass-beautiful, jagged, risky to handle. But even though they cut-or maybe because they cut-one can't resist picking up piece after piece. The poems are extraordinary as individuals, from the intriguing declarative first sentence of each down to its decisive, glistening last line. And as a collection, like 'a subtle song [that] travels / from ancient feet through hearts / to first breath in the world,' Voyeur is spectacular."-Richard Carr, judge for the Gival Press Poetry Award and author of Honey
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