{"product_id":"seasick-serenade-sung-partial-by-dan-murphy","title":"Seasick Serenade, Sung Partial, by Dan Murphy","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 44 pages, from\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" data-mce-style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeasick Serenade, Sung Partial\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etakes the ancient epic of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand reconsiders the characters in harsh, compelling light, forced to live with the aggravated concerns of contemporary society.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe figures of Odysseus, Telemachus, Penelope, and the suitors, come alive in a marginal space between the ancient world and the 20th and 21st centuries, rendered often with the heightened language used to depict the primal world, but with panic, mania, and arresting insight: \"For your hoarse voice\/Son of God \/Son of Man\/have you tried gargling\/with salt water\/Brave King\/ have you tried drowning\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe poems in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeasick Serenade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econsider the self and language, to convey the idea—in personal, as well as political, aesthetic, and spiritual terms—that poetry being part of the world, makes the world part of poetry.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere is a finality and judgment for the reader and characters, such as Odysseus in Seasick Serenade, that becomes a theological argument of negation: \"him wretched\/in sun like a black mark\/ that man that son of man\/striving against his gods\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDan Murphy, a sub-urban Los Angeles writer, musician, former public school teacher, union member, and caffeinated family man, received his Master’s degree in English at California State University at Northridge where he studied poetry with Dorothy Barresi. His writing aims to depict the personal in the political, the larger narrative in the autobiographical, desperation alongside spiritual consolation, and the meaning behind that postmodern moaning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bottlecap Press","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":47543261986994,"sku":"SEASDM","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":47543262019762,"sku":"SEASDMe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/SEASICK3front.png?v=1780354670","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/seasick-serenade-sung-partial-by-dan-murphy","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}