Northern Fields [Paperback]

Chuck Miller (Author)

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Albina
Behind A Large Truck
Black November
Dark Men Are Speaking To Dark Men
Dawn
Day Born Without A Mouth
Dead Dog (for Goo)
The Desperate
Dislocado
Distance Between Us
Down The Lanes And Paths (for Stack)
Dusk In The Woods
Dusk...
The End Of The Negotiable Beggar Bond Banquet
Ensamhet
Flood
For Barbara (1)
For Barbara (2)
For Barbara (3)
For Cesar Vallejo And His Profound Oxides Of Sadness
For Dr. Dewey
For Han Shan On His Cold Mountain
For Juan Rulfo
For Judy
For Judy
For Mickey
For Mike And Kim
For Mrs. Jones
For My Friend John Lying On The Bed With Morning Heaves
For Phil
For Richard Hopper (died 1978)
For Schnu
For Those Who Pray For The Souls Of Broken Dolls
Free Clinic
From Oslo
Gentle As The Lamb Of God Made Into Mad Cutlets
Gray Light Awakening
Harvesters
Hasta La Victoria Siempre
Hookah
How This Morning
If You Can't Make A Joke...
If You Can't Make A Joke...
In Celebration Of Surviving
In The Parking Lot Of The Supermarket
In The Typewriter Shop
In The Typewriter Shop
Invincible Summer
Kattegat
Late September
Lighted Windows (for Judy)
Luftpost (for Levy)
Meditations On An Old Shoe
Men And Women (the Boltzmann Distribution)
Mixed Signals
A Moment Of Sleep (for Schnu)
Near Old Fort Pike On The Des Moines River
Nicaraguan Journal
No And I Don't Know Where...
Northern Fields (for Carol)
November Dusk
On Getting My Poems Back From The Typist
On Some Night A Train...
Panhandle (for Annette)
The Poets
Putting Up Snow Fence
Riding The Bus In The Evening Again
Riding The Bus In The Evening Again
Rising Up
River Of Long Standing...
Room In A Penitentiary
Saw'er At A Temple...
Semantic Drift
Shocks Brakes
So In Evening There Is Still Light
So Long It's Been Good To Know You
Some Days
Sometimes I Want To Take Them In
A Spade A Spade (grocery For The Poor)
Start Up The Music Again
Stumble Into The Great Red Sunset
Stumbling And Weeping
Summer Evening
The Sun Now Or Never (for Barbara)
Swimming In The Last Of September
Swimming In The Last Of September
They Came Furtively
They Came Furtively
To Be Against...
When You Live In Your Car
The Wind
Winter Dawn
Winter
Wondered Why The Building Was So Small
Wondered Why The Building Was So Small
You Feel The Hollowness Of Being Excluded
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Coffee House Press (November 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566890144
• ISBN-13: 978-1566890144
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,929,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE POET AS SAGE, January 27, 2001

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John Birkbeck (Iowa City, IA , USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Northern Fields (Paperback)

Plato once said that "Poets utter wise and great things, not understanding what they themselves say." In the case of Chuck Miller, Plato's utterance is proved askew. I have heard countless readings given by this author, and his wise and great utterances are more than apparent. In his recent book, "Northern Fields", appear myriad examples of the worldly wisdom of this poet. His writing, just as does his melodic voice, reaches across time and cultures. As champion of the downtrodden, the down-and out, and those among us who have somehow fallen through the cracks of the modern world, Miller's insights are profound. His book is a great comfort to the spirit, like sitting before the fire on a cold night; a must.