The Stuttering of Wings

Poetry. In Shiela Murphy's poetry an insistent fluency propels the ear and mind through highly focused, musical creations that evidence the infinite capacity of language. The reader is drawn into a swirl of simultaneously careful and serendipitous craft. "I always return to Murphy's ability to stand the quotidian on its head. This is what enables her poetry to perform so brilliantly. There is no privileging of the hermetic or obscure, but Murphy manages to preserve oblique angles of approach that allow varied readings of any poem"-John Tritica.