Jackknife & Light

The poems of Jackknife & Light (which was a finalist in the National Poetry Series of 1996) give their meanings up slowly, with a languorous precision and care. They aspire to and demand what Murphy defines as a unique "method of looking" and reading... and thinking. "This ghost hums in her hair, his slight tunes rising against his ear but never making it inside. To where_e the song might matter...."