Cries to Kill the Corpse Flower - Visceral, Thought-Provoking Poetry
Wow. This is a spectacular collection of poetry by Ronald J. Murray.
I savored each word and each line like a slow ingestion of hemlock that left me trembling. It was a journey through the tortures of anxiety, inner darkness, fighting it despite the urge to give in, then the realization that it is something to bow down to and to revere for its carnivorous power. At least that’s my take on it. The exquisiteness of this book is unwrapping all the layers within to exhume love, pain, and a slow death from within. I appreciated the reference to Magdalena Solís in the poem of the same name, which made the comparison even more gut-wrenching.
All 40 poems in this body of work, and the ones that are more obviously tied together within the three parts, are truly something to behold. The longer I am away from it, the more its flower unfolds in my mind to reveal other disconcerting planes of existence.
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