The Lit World begins with God's voice just before creation, and ends with the destruction of Europe and the last days in Hitler's bunker. The poems between follow these two, either in their focus on atrocity and violence—a Roman consul's mistaken campaigns in the Middle East, a Byzantine Emperor's blinding of thousands of prisoners of war, the drowning and execution of citizens and clergy during the French Revolution, and the many wars against Native Americans in the West; or in looking to a more contemplative and peaceful life, with monologues from Siberian and Australian shamans, Catholic saints, and a Hindu priest who easily dismisses Alexander the Great's invitation to take him on his campaigns. There are also voices between these, from Walt Whitman looking back on his years away from New York before the Civil War, to Hart Crane's highest moment atop a Catholic church in Mexico, celebrating an Aztec festival; from the Roman Cato of Utica, a suicide, surprised to find himself at the base of Dante's Mount Purgatory, to a sequence of poems from prehistory, imagining the world's first artists and priests painting in the caves of France and Spain amid music and ritual.
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Tim Miller writes about religion, history and poetry. The Lit World is only a small collection of his poems from history and myth, with a larger book (on prehistory and the ancient world) coming soon.
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A collection of poems based on times throughout known human history,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Lit World: Poems from History (Paperback)
The entirety of human existence is filled with plenty of inspiration, and Tim Miller has taken it. "The Lit World" is a collection of poems based on times throughout known human history from Genesis to the end of the tyrannical time of Adolph Hitler. The verse offers new ways of looking at these vital events, making "The Lit World" a unique compendium of poetry. "A Caribou Eskimo Shaman": As a boy I remembered my dreams so clearly it was strange at first: But after a bit this I was given to an old man who took me during winter & he put me on a sledge & took me far away & he built me a small hut & put a skin down on the floor & I stayed thirty days.
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