Poetry. "Wildly absorbing, MURMUR is a gorgeous genre-bender: detective novel, film noir and memoir (and autopsy of all three), tricked out with bloody mirrors, blue murder, mutable coffins, loopy interrogations and a dead bombshell's shoes. This is one fabulous book!"—Rikki Ducornet. "Laura Mullen floods the confines of the 'detective novel' with all possible events, all murderers and all murdered so that, at any point in the narrative, everything has happened and everyone has done it. MURMUR is a further-fiction of displacement and testimony that calls us to the task of deciding not only whether we would or would not do a thing but also whether we even know the difference between the two. A gripping exploration into the brutality of our time that you will not soon forget"—Renee Gladman.

Author Hometown: BATON ROUGE, LA USA



About the author: Laura Mullen is on the Creative Writing Program faculty at Louisiana State University. She is the author of five books: her first collection of poems, The Surface (1991), was a National Poetry Series selection; her second, After I Was Dead (1999), was selected for the University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series. THE TALES OF HORROR was published by Kelsey St. Press in 1999, Subject by University of California Press in 2005, and MURMUR by Futurepoem Books in 2007. Her prose has appeared in the anthologies CIVIL DISOBEDIENCES: POETICS & POLITICS IN ACTION (Coffeehouse Press, 2004) and PARASPHERES (Omnidawn, 2006). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Prize and several MacDowell Colony Fellowships.

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