Dancing on the Edge
(Beacon Press)
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"Not to be Missed."
- Booklist
"A Lively, Winning Collection."
- Billy Collins
Poems for the 21st Century, focusing on community, loss, and relationships. Now in its second printing.
Queen of the Mist
(Beacon Press)
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"Testament to the surprise and beauty that poetry still can be."
- Philadelphia Inquirer
"A superb book-length poem."
- Detroit Free Press
A novel in verse about the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Runner-up for a Poetry Society of America Award, selected by Joyce Carol Oates.
Looking for the Parade
(W.W. Norton)
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"These poems glow with light and enlightenment, both."
- Robert Coles
"She never fights shy of big issues."
- The Times, (London)
Narrative and meditative poems on social issues, art, aging, and death. Winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Robert Bly.
The Same Water
(Wesleyan University Press)
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"An exceptionally generous and moving book."
- Amy Clampitt
"Murray has a remarkable talent."
- The Hudson Review
The whole sweep of a life, from childhood and adolescence through motherhood and maturity.
Winner of the Wesleyan New Poets Series.
who is really interested in the
world . . . . Her poetry is skilled,
compassionate, wry and passionate."
- Robert Bly
