This metered voice of a Dakota farmer lends witness to outrageous extremes of weather, crop failure, alcoholism and ghost towns. Murphy's lyrics sing the jauntiness of a survivor-as in 'The Peg-Leg Pig'-while the supple and vigorous shorter poems explore themes as far-ranging as homosexuality and Chinese philosophy.
This metered voice of a Dakota farmer lends witness to outrageous extremes of weather, crop failure, alcoholism and ghost towns. Murphy's lyrics sing the jauntiness of a survivor-as in 'The Peg-Leg Pig'-while the supple and vigorous shorter poems explore themes as far-ranging as homosexuality and Chinese philosophy.