Erin Murphy"s taut new collection, DISTANT GLITTER, is devastating in its casual economy, evoking worlds with a brief, sure sketch. "Erin Murphy writes poems of serious play, and her stunning new collection, DISTANT GLITTER, is filled with the joyful music of meditation and invention. Murphy"s is a poetry that refuses to stand still, that embraces tradition even as it finds a way to twist old forms into delightfully new shapes. Her ingenuity is grounded in trust-she believes language can lead us to insight. Time and again she brings us face to face with ordinary devastation, the daily tragedies and losses that accumulate in every life. And without fail she rescues her readers from the recognition of emptiness, from Stevens" "the nothing that is," by offering up the thrilling and redemptive rewards of the imagination. What a pleasure this poetry is."-James Harms "If, synaesthetically speaking, music can be said to shine, Erin Murphy has accomplished the feat. The music of our English...