With Inside Stories, Rich Murphy has as an initial impetus plumbing the physical and emotional interior of Homo sapiens. Friedrich Schiller's play drive may best describe the style: "It is union of the unconscious and reflection that makes the poetic artist." Meta-modernism may best describe its heart. He agrees with philosopher Alain Badiou, who states, "Poetry in some sense portrays . . . what was impossible to say in the same language." A peek into the anatomical language for its functi...

Storage Shed asks the reader to think of shedding an unsteady self while also considering a shed, a small barn in suburbia: The theme of the fragmented self is present. The poems remain an attempt to slow the reader down, pulling the reader out of the humdrum world of platitude and cliche of everyday language imbued with cynicism. Each contains cascading effect of little epiphanies. From beginning to end the poems provide a world of thought while engaging in play as a child to expose relat...

First Aid dresses wounds inflicted in a world of "same," self-absorption, and the death of the literary. It marks out what has been lost and explores alternative ways for Homo sapiens. The title also refers to the Percival myth where the wound carries the cure. Think Schiller's play drive. Think a bridge over romanticism, modernism, and postmodernism.

German philosopher Byung-Chul Han defines poetry as "luxury in language," and where Andre Breton in his Manifesto on Surrealism claims that "only the marvelous is beautiful," Han states, "I cannot conceive of the beautiful apart from the foreign. All genuine beauty is foreign." The marvelous, the foreign transport the reader to the experience of being alive. Poetry, for the author, remains an attempt to slow the reader down and pull the reader out of the humdrum world of platitude and clic...

Unleash Your Video Stardom!Ready to shine on the world's biggest stage? With YouTube Channels For Dummies, you'll unlock the secrets to creating powerful videos and channels that captivate audiences and propel your brand to stardom. Four renowned experts guide you through every step, from ideation to production, promotion, and monetization.Master video planning, filming, and editing that demand attentionDiscover cutting-edge tech an...

In, The War Against the Virus: The Ultimate Collection of Tips and Tricks to Help You Thrive During COVID-19 Pandemic, author Dr. Rich Murphy takes us on a detailed journey to understanding our new normal with COVID-19. As a long time survivalist, he brings over forty-five years of experience as an Army Officer and Engineer to his own war-- a war against a virus. Reviewing the historical connections to similar mass epidemics, we learn how a virus is able to be spread so rapidly around the ...

Ready to shine on the world's biggest stage? With YouTube Channels For Dummies, you'll unlock the secrets to creating powerful videos and channels that captivate audiences and propel your brand to stardom. Four renowned experts guide you through every step, from ideation to production, promotion, and monetization.● Master video planning, filming, and editing that demand attention● Discover cutting-edge tech and tools to capture the perfect shot● Explore aud...

Create a YouTube channel that draws subscribers with top-notch contentYouTube has the eyes and ears of two billion monthly users. YouTube Channels for Dummies, 2nd Edition offers proven steps to attracting a chunk of those billions to your personal or business channel.This updated guide offers insight from a quartet of YouTube channel content creators, managers, marketers, and analysts as they share the secrets of creating great content, building a...

Poetry, humor, illustrations, a personal examination of mental challenges along with a deep grasp of spiritual matters infuse this big, readable work by Rich Melcher. Comprising 55 reflections and two “postscripts,” Melcher’s collection is an enjoyable, random ramble through events of his life, showing how major issues such as bipolar disorder and Biblical truths have influenced him, along with significant encounters with people along the way. Reflection 20 introduces Melcher’s RROCKSS Cod...

Poetry, humor, illustrations, a personal examination of mental challenges along with a deep grasp of spiritual matters infuse this big, readable work by Rich Melcher. Comprising 55 reflections and two “postscripts,” Melcher’s collection is an enjoyable, random ramble through events of his life, showing how major issues such as bipolar disorder and Biblical truths have influenced him, along with significant encounters with people along the way. Reflection 20 introduces Melcher’s RROCKSS Cod...

From bestselling author Rich Cohen and award-winning illustrator Kelly Murphy comes a middle grade action-adventure novel, Alex and the Amazing Time Machine.Alex Trumble is a pretty ordinary kid—except for the fact that his IQ borders on genius, and he loves to read books on vortexes and time travel. But when two angry hit men kidnap his big brother Steven, Alex's life changes fast. Inventing a time machine (using an iPod, mirrors, duct tape, and a laser p...

Unmask the haunted history of Halloween in this fact-tastic, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a new series all about the history of fun stuff!Did you know that hundreds of years ago, people would carve jack-o’-lanterns out of turnips and potatoes? Or that today, Americans spend nearly two billion dollars each year on Halloween candy? Learn all about the not-so-scary history of Halloween in this fun, fact-filled book.A special section at the back of...