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9781557531209 Academic Inspection Copy

Murderer's Day

  • ISBN-13: 9781557531209
  • Publisher: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By E.M. Schorb
  • Price: AUD $23.99
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  • Local release date: 29/08/1998
  • Format: Paperback 100 pages Weight: 187g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Apollo wears many hats. The physician Apollo puts his stethoscope to the heart of darkness; the poet Apollo heals through song; therapeutic Apollo, no matter what else, for he is the classic renaissance god, is always the healer, bringing strange joy to the psychically damaged. The good poet is Apollo's assistant and ward-nurse; his or her painless injections of magic lighten and brighten the darkest heart, the darkest mind. E.M. Schorb's book of pathologies and cures, Murderer's Day, reflects life on the mosquito coasts, the plains and foothills of Parnassus. There is less magic down here than there is up there, and the poet seems certain, as all poets must be, for wonder is their way, that there is even more magic beyond. Schorb hopes that his little missal/missile shines with truth and reflects his faith that, although it is dark down here, we are all going into a world of light.
E.M. Schorb describes himself as a former Marine, shoe shine boy, cowboy, Western Union boy, candy butcher in Minsky's Burlesque, stevedore on the New York docks, salesman, actor, dramatic coach, restaurant manager, copy writer, real estate broker, and mortgage broker. His poems have appeared in the American Scholar, the Sewanee Review, the Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, and the Yale Review, among many others. He is a recent recipient of a fellowship in literature from the North Carolina Arts Council.
Winner of the 1997 Verna Emery Poetry Prize.
"The poems of E.M. Schorb shine calmly even as they buzz with energy; are connaissant with world and yet transcendent of it; make something deeply funny and yet highly sad - given a world and a time and a good mind's eye. This is the work of a mature intelligence, its ironies unadulterated by cynicism, and its swells informed by understatement. A feisty book, a confident book, and in its own way, a furiously festive one." --Heather McHugh
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