Songs of Innocence [Paperback]

Tim Miller (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2002

Songs of Innocence presents childhood in a collage of images. Lucid, simple, and sublime, flowing from season to season, from emotion to emotion, from poetry into prose and back again, the whole becomes a kaleidoscope of memory itself.

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About the Author

Poet, novelist, essayist and playwright, Tim Miller's work has appeared in Abbey, Ohio Writer, The Journal of Experimental Fiction, and the The Burning Bush. He is the author of the books Death by Water, Acceleration, and Valley of Ashes. This new poetry/prose work Songs of Innocence is the first in a projected seven-volume Confessions from the True Mad North of Introspection.
Tim Miller also edits a magazine of modern fiction and poetry, Jacob's Ladder, as well as a small press, Six Gallery Press.

Product Details

• Paperback: 116 pages
• Publisher: Fugue State Press (March 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879193086
• ISBN-13: 978-1879193086
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,216,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly a Rare and Beautiful Work, March 19, 2003

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Carolyn Howard-Johnson "Author 'This is the P... (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songs of Innocence (Paperback)

Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of "This is the Place" and "Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered"

Is a poem by any other name truly a poem?

Tim Miller has written a book about childhood that sent chills down my back from the first moment: "They chased each other through a field just as the clouds hunted one another above; they hid among the whisperingweeds and crouched beneath the thick sheets of unforgiving steel..."

If a reader can embrace Dostoyevsky's quote, "You must know that there is nothing higher, or stronger, or sounder, or more useful afterwards in life, than some good memory, especially a memory from childhood," then it is definitely hers to hold in her hand and in her heart.

Songs of Innocence tells short stories (are they stories?) that will make you laugh or cry as surely as if they were full-length movies or a novel of that lives through the ages. Each piece of truth (fiction is it? or truth?) is numbered. The intimate horror of Number 95 is worth the cost of this small volume, enough to shame us, make the best of us think about what it is that we do, think, and pray for in this world.

Number 4 is simply a quote from Baudelaire: "Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will." Need I say more?

(Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the award-winning author of This is the Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered.