Weeding Borges’ Garden, Poems by Melissa Morphew

The recurring image of the garden forms the recurring thread of Melissa Morphew’s pastiche narrative Weeding Borges’ Garden, a wild excursion through multiple landscapes of feeling and idea.

Sample Poems by Melissa Morphew

“Weeding Borges’ Garden invokes the art of repetition to illustrate the string theory of literature. In an inspired linguistic experiment, Melissa Morphew pulls one event—the ‘simple calculus of death’—through a series of worm holes, conflating time and space. From Eden to Woolworth’s, the ‘pleasure-ache of an ordinary day’ is elevated to the realm of myth/folklore/parable. This garden blooms profusely.”—Judith Kitchen

Melissa Morphew is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. She has published three previous poetry collections Hunger and Heat (The Missionary Letters), The Garden Where All Loves End, and Fathom. Her poems appear regularly in such journals as The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, Prarie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, and many others. She is the recipient of a Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize, a W.B. Yeats Society Poetry Prize, and a Tennessee Arts Commission Grant in Poetry. She lives on a small farm in Riverside, Texas where she grows many flowers.

ISBN 978-1936370191, 106 pages, $19.00

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