{"product_id":"the-blackened-blues-9781646625390","title":"The Blackened Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed author and music critic Sean Murphy's new poetry collection is a searing and timely take on American culture that finds perspective on the present by interrogating our past. \u003cem\u003eThe Blackened Blues\u003c\/em\u003e offers a powerful glimpse into the human psyche, exploring the minds of artists and visionaries, addicts and trauma survivors, searching (as we all are) for \"some way to live.\" We leave this book with a heavy dose of truth, but also of the kind of beauty that makes such truth bearable. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurphy, Sean:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sean Murphy has been publishing fiction, poetry, reviews (of music, movie, book, food), and essays on the technology industry for more than twenty years. He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and been quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Forbes, and AdAge. A long-time columnist for PopMatters, his work has also appeared in Salon, The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, The Good Men Project, Memoir Magazine, and others. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize two times, once for short fiction and once for poetry. His poems have been widely anthologized, including the collections Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era, This Is What America Looks Like, Lo-Fi Poetry Series: Poet Sounds, and Written in Arlington: Poems for Arlington, VA. Previous publications include the memoir Please Talk about Me When I'm Gone, the novel Not To Mention a Nice Life, and the non-fiction collections Murphy's Law, Volumes One and Two.","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50449820778770,"sku":"9781646625390","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d8262a6e-f699-4ae4-9be1-2b9026677372.jpg?v=1729747212","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-blackened-blues-9781646625390","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}