Rich
Murphy’s Comments
The poems apearing
here in FRiGG are from The Apple in the Monkey Tree. The
manuscript illuminates the assimilation of science and
Eastern culture into Classical and Judeo-Christian mythology. It assumes
that each Western man and woman is a “monkey in the apple tree”:
Darwin’s monkey in Adam & Eve’s tree, suffering Christ’s
pain in Einstein’s epoch while applying a salve from the East.
Ten poems in this manuscript have been reprinted from print editions to e-zines
or from e-zine to print. The collection has won finalist in several national
competitions yet remains unpublished. Book publishers may contact me for a
more extensive read of the manuscript at RMurphy277@aol.com. They may also
find reprinted poems in Astropoetica .
