A new & selected collection providing a comprehensive overview of an inventve, daring, and insightful lyric poet.
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The Boston Book Review recently compared Jane Miller's writing to Jackson Pollack's painting: inventive, energetic, risky. This career overview has more hits than misses, and allows the reader to trace Miller's development from a raw talent to a skilled poet. Typical of Miller's surprising and thought-provoking phrases, from "Immaculate View:" "love: the power of lust turned generous . . . ." This is hi-octane, inventive writing.
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Miller (August Zero, LJ 9/15/93) enters poetic midcareer with this selection from five previous volumes plus 15 new poems that focus primarily on her father's death. From the start, Miller has written about love, desperation, and loss for an audience that is not married to traditional narrative, syntax, and prosody. In the beautifully conceived "Picnic," Miller's version of a "Dejeuner sur l'herbe" scene explodes into a sexually charged epiphany that defies the sterile passivity of high-tech culture: "this couldn't take place/ on metromedia television, because the message/ is the corsage the woman has on." Miller's disjointed syntax will frustrate some readers: "Well my Cadillac now that the hog herding has begun/ big ones spray gunned/ is this the permission we longed for/ not in prose or stone but in action?" Others will read these poems over and over, attempting to piece together details of love (between women) and locale. Recommended for libraries lacking her strongest collection, American Odalisque (Copper Canyon, 1987, o.p.)?Ellen Kaufman, Dewey Ballantine Law Lib., New York
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This review is from: Memory at These Speeds: New & Selected Poems (Paperback)
"Memory at These Speeds: New and Selected Poems" is the best introduction to Jane Miller's amazing genius. Her intellect, passion and raw edge swoop, swing and jump through this generous collection of poems that work hard at the business of love, truth and the absolute. Despite the frantic, white-knuckled pace, these poems have been distilled into ever more dense detonations. Jane Miller will shock you, and she's not scared to lose the reader at points; but one is left in the end with the tangible sense that these poems respect the reader. Truly, to have this much Jane Miller in one collection is a wonderful value and a genuine treat. She's not just working on the cutting edge of poetry--she IS the edge, and once you get a taste of the power and sheer life force packed into these pages, you'll be a fan for life.
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From Brazil to Miami to a roadside motel to a super billboard above Vega's Stardust you are in vast spaces at high speeds all watt & animation your enormous corpse must be seen as a moving sequence inflected toward the freeway received by approaching traffic from a greater distance for a longer time & may it be known you take the sign away & there is no place this being your civic duty to inform us we ought to have put together an allegiance of tribes & swept down on the fort & spilled the Christians off the continent's edge Read the first page New!
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From Brazil to Miami to a roadside motel to a super billboard above Vega's Stardust you are in vast spaces at high speeds all watt & animation your enormous corpse must be seen as a moving sequence inflected toward the freeway received by approaching traffic from a greater distance for a longer time & may it be known you take the sign away & there is no place this being your civic duty to inform us we ought to have put together an allegiance of tribes & swept down on the fort & spilled the Christians off the continent's edge Read the first page New!
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- The greater leisures (The National poetry series) by Jane Miller in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- August Zero (Western States Book Award) by Jane Miller in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Black Holes / J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading (Cultural Memory in the Present) by J. Miller in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- American Odalisque by Jane Miller in Back Matter
- Encyclopaedia of Associations: Regional, State and Local Organizations, 1988-89 v.4 by Susan B Martin in Back Matter
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- The Extraordinary Tide by Susan Aizenberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Extraordinary Tide by Susan Aizenberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Wherever You Lay Your Head by Jane Miller in Back Matter, and Back Cover
- The Gift of Tongues: Twenty-five Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press by Sam Hamill in Index (1), and Index (2)
- A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now by Aliki Barnstone on page 730, and Back Matter
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