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Letters to Unfinished J.

Sheila E. Murphy

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Winner of The Gertrude Stein Poetry Award, 2001

Selected by Dennis Phillips, Letters to Unfinished J. is comprised of 66 “letters,” composed from 1994-1996, in which poet Sheila Murphy further establishes herself as a major author of the prose poem. Her text is equally at home in depths and surfaces that conjoin as she excavates and questions at multiple levels. Unexpected images, perceptions, and word combinations emerge, resulting often in political and societal critiques. Each of the letters is tightly composed, highly concentrated, and fraught with motion.

Author of Teth, Obeli: 21 Contemplations, A Clove of Gender, With House Silence, Sad Isn’t the Color of the Dream, Falling in Love, and other books, Sheila Murphy lives in Phoenix, Arizona. She is also an accomplished flutist, having performed since the age of 10.