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City of Silver and Gold is a meditation on the horrors of war and the trauma that such conflicts engender. Using metaphors, sensory details, and symbols, this chapbook challenges the reader both intellectually and emotionally, asking difficult questions about human relationships, and wondering how it is possible to maintain peace with our neighbors, especially when our neighbors have caused us harm. The writer believes that the only way to ensure peace and happiness for all people is through loving our neighbors as we love ourselves.

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Filled with reverie, longing, and subtle pathos, Liss's lyrical poems prompt powerful questions about the human and the Divine. City of Silver and Gold is a book that gazes unflinchingly at a region beleaguered by the sorrows of war. -Yehoshua November The song rises but can't be heard, Miles Liss says in one poem, which is true of so many voices today, but not this voice, which is a voice from the depths, from the wilderness we are starting to live in. Like its nuclear metaphor, the ""Half Life of Hate,"" as one poem is titled, threatens to become a permanent part of the world's, and our own psychic landscape. Seeing the world through realistic lens myths, tracing our conflicts around the embattled world, the very fact that Liss can write, can make order of the chaos, is something that gives us hope that as he says in a letter addressed to an enemy ""The door is right before us."" His is a much needed book that has opened the door. -Richard Jackson In CITY OF SILVER AND GOLD, Miles Liss shows himself to be that very rare thing, an authentic poet of conscience, searching in an unjust world for the balm of moral clarity. These spare and thoughtful lyrics begin with consternation, but end in a provisional wisdom. I very much admire the quiet ardor and steady resonance of these poems. -David Wojahn

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Miles Liss is the author of Some Inconvenient Poems, a collection of original poetry and art. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Atlanta Review, Chiron Review, and Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality. He is the winner of the 2021 AWP Kurt Brown Prize in Poetry and was chosen as a scholar for the 2024 Yetzirah Jewish Poetry Conference. Miles received his MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He lives with his wife, the poet and writer Zakia Ahmadzai, in Northern Virginia.

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