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You’ll see what I mean with Judymay Murphy’s poetry. —\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Yury Revich, Violinist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis collection reminds us that poetry is not writing about a thing done, but\u003cbr\u003ewriting as a doing thing, touching, stirring, and eddying our vulnerabilities\u003cbr\u003einto what might still be possible for us. — \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor Brian Singleton Samuel Beckett, Professor of Drama at Trinity College Dublin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eyewear Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30374389973044,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/7354\/products\/Cover_murphy.jpg?v=1570461921"},{"product_id":"love-algorithm","title":"Love Algorithm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eOut Now | Poetry | Paperback\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe poem 'You Want to Come to Mine?' was longlisted in the Bedford International Writing Competition 2019.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLove Algorithm\u003c\/em\u003e, a tender touch of lyric love fuses with the harshness of profit-driven motivations to sharpen our appreciation of the digital age. Loss of an authentic self is never far away but neither is hope for the discovery of a new kind of fellowship. As the scenes shift from London to Paris to Shanghai, the poems intensify the global connections that make love a constant riddle for all mankind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCay’s view in \u003c\/em\u003eLove Algorithm\u003cem\u003e is that, like it or lump it, poetry must recognise the part that internet interactions and transactions play in relationships. Such narratives “do not follow scheduled \/ serendipity. When they break up \/ there are not suitcases by the door: \/ just a switch flicked on an invisible wall” (‘Digital Loves’)...She has an eye for odd, intimate moments (“I love brushing my teeth with you”), and for arresting phrases: “You rolled down the car window \/ poked your head out like a Labrador” (‘Journeyings’)...This collection took me by surprise. There is a freshness and high-spirited openness to Eleni Cay’s poetry that I found engaging. 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Although this language clearly reflects the physicality of the overwhelming numbers of black people we see felled by police bullets yearly, monthly, weekly and even daily in this country, this seemingly benign act of separating body from breath or body from spirit is a revelatory reminder of the mind\/body problem African Americans have been historically forced to reckon with since the first enslaved “negroes” were brought to Massachusetts in 1624. A Ligature for Black Bodies enters the conversation at precisely the point of re-humanizing black bodies into black people by holding accountable the power structures and people who have reified a dominant and destructive discourse. The poems in the collection explore what it means to see the falling of black and brown people through the dash cams and body cams of the police officers that shoot them as well as the cellphones of those everyday citizens who stand as witness. It also seeks to highlight the ways in which these videos from police body cams and dash cams mirrors the taking of pictures of lynchings and then the sending of lynching postcards across the country in the early to mid twentieth century. The viewing of contemporary dying and dead bodies of African Americans made lifeless while surrounded by spectators is one of the driving forces of the manuscript. The found poems and persona poems are meant to read as police, prosecutor, and journalist's \"confessions\" to the deaths of the African Americans recorded on dash cams, body cams, and cell phones. To root these confessions in truth, A Ligature for Black Bodies sources contemporary news articles, autopsy reports, court testimonies, verdicts, and sentences to illustrate the ways in which , a white power structure has always sought to make bodies out of black people and, because of a racially rooted power structure set up to create and perpetuate racism, how black people have much too often had to reclaim these bodies that have been systematically stripped of breath. The poems are evidence of black people's current striving in this country to convince that same power structure that black lives matter. The final poem, written in the voice of Sandra Bland and written to LaQuan McDonald and Tamir Rice seeks to do just that. The poems refuse the narrative of black people as bodies only. Instead their discourse creates a space where the poems re-member black people's dismemberment at the hands of white people through a journey of truth-telling that shows this same white power structure that black people are people and that the same animating principles that make then human are the same animating principles that make black people human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDenise Miller is a professor, poet and mixed media artist whose poetry has been published in the Offing, African American Review and Blackberry: A Magazine. They were named the 2015 Willow Books Emerging Poet, an AROHO Waves Discussion Fellowship awardee, a finalist for the Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund, and a Hedgebrook Fellow. Their work titled, Core, was released by Willow Books in 2015 and has since been nominated for a 2016 American Book Award and a 2016 Pushcart Prize. Miller has been named a 2016 William Randolph Hearst Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. 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