{"product_id":"e-michael-murphy-moon-country-9781665786386","title":"Moon Country","description":"Pity the poor plumeria tree:\n\u003cbr\u003e\nno white petals again this year;\n\u003cbr\u003e\nand again its green, oblong leaves\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfall before their prime, expose\n\u003cbr\u003e\nits skeletal frame like a desert fossil.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWe hadn't asked all that much\n\u003cbr\u003e\nof the plumeria---neither the shade\n\u003cbr\u003e\nnor the elegance the others give---\n\u003cbr\u003e\nonly that it be a privacy screen\n\u003cbr\u003e\nbetween our patio and the passersby.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPerhaps it thinks itself the orphan\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwe'd adopted, the child with atavistic\n\u003cbr\u003e\ntraits we could not recognize, the one\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwhom teachers sent home with notes,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe kid who missed the open goal,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe young man who left for the hills\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwith The Wanderers---the son\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfor whom we'd kill the fatted calf\n\u003cbr\u003e\nif only he'd come back home to us,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nbe the new leaf on our plumeria tree.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn his Moon Country poems, Michael E. Murphy spirits the reader off to exotic places likeIguazu Falls, the Bolshoi Theatre, Galleons Lap, the Agasawara archipelago in the westernPacific and back to drier ground in the Cholla Gardens of Joshua Tree Park. On the wingsof these and other poetic flights, the reader accompanies Murphy as he comes of age in St.Paul, raises a family and develops an international business law practice in Minneapolis,then returns in retirement to St. Paul-and to California's Coachella Valley to write his lifestories. For that's what these Moon Country poems are-stories. The word poem comes fromthe Greek poiesis, the act of creating or imagining something, like a story. Murphy invitesreaders to relive his life with him through these little stories, these Moon Country poems.","brand":"Archway Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53811356893526,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/e-michael-murphy-moon-country-9781665786386","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}