In "A Bell Curve and Other Poems," poet David J. Murray divides
118 short poems into seven separate sections; each section holds a
common theme but includes a different number of poems from the
other sections. The poems of this collection offer photographs of
moments in his mental life, while the collection as a whole uses
the bell-curve concept to allow him to stress the unified nature of
this poetry collection.
The first section, only three poems long, is about children. The
second section, nine poems long, is about the author's professional
interests in psychology and philosophy. The third, including
seventeen poems, is about the arts, especially literature. The
fourth section-the middle-includes fifty-eight poems addressed to
the person who is the heroine of Murray's previous book, "An
Artist's Model and Other Poems (2012)." Sixteen poems comprise the
fifth section on women Murray has met in the past and whose
influence on him led him to write about those encounters. The sixth
section contains twelve poems about the changing views of Lake
Ontario as he sees it every day. The final section includes just
three memorial poems, two of which concern his deceased wife's
gravesite in Kingston's Cataraqui Cemetery.
These numbers-3, 9, 17, 58, 16, 12, 3-resemble, in outline, a
sharply peaked bell curve, illustrating roughly how much time
Murray spends thinking about each topic at the present stage of his
poetic experience. This form offers exploration and a snapshot of
his current thoughts on a wide range of subjects.
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