Fathom,
Poems by Melissa Morphew
The
poems of Melissa Morphew’s Fathom draw their stories from the incidents
of daily life, and do so with such brio that the world is transformed
into Morphew’s sensual, joyous vision.
Sample Poems by Melissa Morphew
“Loving language in and of itself, for how it sounds, for the meaning
one might make, for its plasticity and formal qualities (as, for example,
the painter’s medium is paint, the composer’s medium, notes),
often motivates a person to write poems. Alas, it is not axiomatic that
the greater the love of language the stronger the poet. In Melissa Morphew’s
case, gladly, a passion for the medium and a deep knowledge of its possibilities,
has joined with the practical skill required to make merry and make sorrowful,
take us to bed and to bounty, to the odd and the familiar, to worlds-upon-
worlds, and to do so beautifully, lavishly, intricately and interestingly.
Reading Fathom is a joyful, dazzling, elegant experience.”—Gray
Jacobik
Melissa Morphew, a native of Tennessee, currently lives in Texas where
she is associate professor of English and creative writing at Sam Houston
State University.Her work has appeared widely in such journals as The
Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly Review,
and Parnassus: Poetry in Review.
She is the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Grant in Poetry from
the Tennessee Arts Commission, winner of the Randall Jarrell International
Poetry Prize, winner of the W.B. Yeats Society Award in Poetry, as well
as, several other prizes and honors. She is a four-time nominee for the
Pushcart Prize. Her previous collections include
Hunger and Heat: The Missionary
Letters (Anabiosis Press, 1995) and The Garden Where All Loves
End (La Jolla Poets Press, 1997).
ISBN: 1933456213, 100 pages, $17.00
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