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The winner of the 2023 Fonograf Editions Open Genre Book Prize contest, as chosen by Srikanth Reddy, Groceries is a book-length poem about what to do about objects. On earth everyone is worried about objects - getting them, naming them, maintaining them, destroying them, getting rid of them. Some people say objects will be the end of life on earth. Other people say objects will save us, if we get the right ones. But as we reckon with these object-mediated futures, we live on an earth full of the stuff itself: fax machines, horseshoes, waves. Groceries is a guide for what to do about these objects—how to speak to them and how to listen for a reply.

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""A book is a box with emptiness in it: □. This is a book. An author is university with rain inside it. This book is written by Nora Claire Miller. Who is Nora Claire Miller? 'my name is nonce, my name is nobody, who the hell are you.' That's what they say in the book they wrote, which is called Groceries. Groceries is a book with emptiness in it, empty boxes, universities, rain, human beings. They look like this: □□□□□. Who the hell am I, Nora Claire Miller asks me. I am a character that my phone cannot recognize: □. There is a book here called Groceries and Nora Claire Miller is its author. Its reader is an empty box, a university, a curtain of rain, a human being. If you are one or more of those things, please check the box: □.""--Toby Altman, author of Discipline Park ""Form is a word that's preoccupied poets since time immemorial. The shapes that proliferate throughout Miller's Groceries make form new. Not only literary form, but that, too.""--Srikanth Reddy

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Nora Claire Miller is a poet. Their first book Groceries was the winner of the Fonograf Editions Open Genre Contest, selected by Srikanth Reddy, and is forthcoming in fall 2025. Nora's work has recently appeared in The Paris Review, FENCE, and Chicago Review. Nora is based in Western Massachusetts, where they're the editor-in-chief of Ghost Proposal. They have an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a BA from Hampshire College.

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