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There's a place where rivers run cold and clear, where the woods seem to remember everything, and where a simple day outdoors can become a lasting memory. In Upper Michigan: Stories, Memories, and Poems, R. H. Miller invites readers into that world--shaped by friendship, loss, humor, and the quiet pull of the North. Through short stories, memories, and poems, he captures the spirit of the Upper Peninsula: its people, landscapes, and defining moments. Fishing threads through the collection, but these pieces reach far beyond it. At their heart, they explore connection--between friends, generations, and the places that shape us. There is laughter, grief, and the kind of wisdom that comes with time. Warm, honest, and deeply reflective, this collection offers a chance to slow down and step into another rhythm--one memory, one story at a time. ""Upper Michigan, R. H. Miller's new collection of stories, poems, and memories, will be a delight to anyone who loves fly fishing, the U.P., nature, and married couple humor. Like John Voelker in Trout Madness, Miller finds solace in nature, understands the deeper consolations to be found in a trout stream or out in the wilderness, and paints pictures with words that make you wish you were fishing right now."" -- Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD and award-winning author of Charley Kawbawgam: Ojibwa Chief and Lake Superior Pioneer From Modern History Press

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ROBERT HENRY MILLER is a writer, scholar, and Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Louisville, where he taught from 1968 until his retirement in 2004 and served as chair of both the Department of English and the Division of Humanities. Trained at Bowling Green State University (BA, MA) and The Ohio State University (PhD), his early scholarly work focused on textual studies, bibliography, and twentieth-century British and American literature.Miller is widely recognized for his scholarship on Graham Greene, including Understanding Graham Greene (University of South Carolina Press), now in its second edition, as well as bibliographical and editorial work on Sir John Harington and studies of writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemingway, and Ingmar Bergman. His articles have appeared in leading journals, including Studies in Bibliography, English Literary Renaissance, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and Renascence.Alongside his academic career, Miller has published extensively as a creative writer. His memoir Deaf Hearing Boy (Gallaudet University Press) chronicles his experience growing up as a hearing child of deaf parents and was selected as a KET Book Club pick. His poetry collection A Long Glance was published by Finishing Line Press, and his poems, stories, and essays have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies. His short fiction has received multiple honors, including first prize from the Lake Superior Writers Association and finalist recognition for the Robert Traver Award.

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