The unfinished family /
"Barbara E. Murphy's compelling The Unfinished Family comes to terms with the notion that families can ever be 'finished.' The poems in this brave and provocative collection explore the impulses of duty and loyalty, love and fear and compulsion for perfection as the speaker comes...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Somerville, Massachusetts :
Červená Barva Press,
[2025]
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| Summary: | "Barbara E. Murphy's compelling The Unfinished Family comes to terms with the notion that families can ever be 'finished.' The poems in this brave and provocative collection explore the impulses of duty and loyalty, love and fear and compulsion for perfection as the speaker comes to embrace the mistakes that are inevitable in every family. These poems are as honest as they are hopeful in their insistence that we return again and again to the messy work of being with our people and starting again"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 58 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781950063925 1950063925 |