W. Scott Howard

Practitioner Joy

Arts & Literature

“This is a vital collection of prayers for our flaws to ‘shape into wings.’ Rich Murphy’s Practitioner Joy performs linguistic ‘triage for the wounds / and memes’ of our habitual misrule on planet Earth. Murphy’s songs and sutures—intimate, sardonic, vulnerable—bear witness to ‘imagination and desire, [pounding] from the inside.’ In the midst of popular madness, Murphy’s poems show us how to practice joyful sounds of flight.”

Sigurd’s Lament

Arts & Literature

“Who is Benjamin Peters? And how has he become the poet-translator-collaborator-editor-bibliographer-scholar of Sigurd’s Lament? ‘We simply do not know.’ This epic epic will envelop readers in the penetralium of an enigma inside a mystery wrapped in the riddle of a Medieval Welsh scroll. Mr. Peters has given us something marvelous and strange, indeed. Clyw fy cân o foliant i Lament Sigurd yn!”