Poetry. "This poet first writes: 'There was no struggle when I was born.' But clearly everything since then has gone into the burn of metaphor and memory, into ache and solace. Murray Shugars's poems turn on a fierce honesty, go into story, go into song. By way of his dark, dazzling 'Litany of Things Known,' we move through 'the distance between Heaven & Hell' from Charlie Parker's weeping at 'predawn birdsong' to 'cancer & smoke,' from an M-16 as lens and anchor to 'ice-glazed poplars' breaking in the woods, these flashes that amaze and sting until the world is richer and so much stranger."—Marianne Boruch

Author City: VICKSBURG, MS USA

Murray Shugars grew up in Muskegon County, Michigan, but he now lives in Vicksburg, Mississippi, with his wife, Sandra, and daughters Samantha and Miranda. He is an associate professor of English at Alcorn State University. He also serves in the Mississippi Army National Guard.

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