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With Inside Stories, Rich Murphy has as an initial impetus plumbing the physical and emotional interior of Homo sapiens. Friedrich Schiller's play drive may best describe the style: "It is union of the unconscious and reflection that makes the poetic artist." Meta-modernism may best describe its heart. He agrees with philosopher Alain Badiou, who states, "Poetry in some sense portrays . . . what was impossible to say in the same language." A peek into the anatomical language for its functions and intrigues will become evident in Murphy's poetics, as will the use of rudimentary scientific language for aspects of interiority.
Rich Murphy is a poet and author whose poetry has recently appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Calameo (Mexico), Experiential-Experimental-Literature (Ukraine), Terror House Magazine (Hungary) , Otoliths (Australia), Die Leere Mitte (Germany), Bangalore Review (India), Lit. 202 (England), Neologism Poetry Journal, Word for / Word, West Texas Literary Review, New Note Poetry Journal, Grey Sparrow, Chiron Review, Flatbush Review, and Fractured Ecologies (anthology, Denmark). Prophet Voice Now, his book-length collection of essays on poetry and poetics, was a finalist in the book contest at Common Ground Research Network and published in June 2020.