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Overview"Poetry. ""Wayne Miller's ONLY THE SENSES SLEEP celbrates the transforming power of attentino and distraction, as the perceived dissolves into memory and reverie. 'Moving away from myself//and further into myself' in a poetry both elegant and completely natural, 'the mind keeps trying to arrive/at the other side of here, ' leaving it refreshed and exhilirated by the knowledge that 'retreat//is also a kind of arrival.'""--John Koethe. Wayne Miller was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, studied at Oberlin College, and after working briefly in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, received an MFA from the University of Houston" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wayne MillerPublisher: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Imprint: Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.114kg ISBN: 9781930974654ISBN 10: 1930974655 Pages: 84 Publication Date: 01 October 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsMiller describes both the visible and the invisible with elegant ease. These poems dissolve the boundaries between things and across time, so that the strangeness of the world is apparent: 'the sunlight comes as if through a phonograph needle' . . . Charting shifting perceptions of an ever-shifting world, Miller's is a welcome new voice: 'What's at issue is air', he writes, words gripping its thick wet fur / while it fills us and leaves us.' <i><b>Publisher Weekly, (Starred Review)</b></i> Miller describes both the visible and the invisible with elegant ease. These poems dissolve the boundaries between things and across time, so that the strangeness of the world is apparent: 'the sunlight comes as if through a phonograph needle' . . . Charting shifting perceptions of an ever-shifting world, Miller's is a welcome new voice: 'What's at issue is air', he writes, words gripping its thick wet fur / while it fills us and leaves us.' -- Publisher Weekly, (Starred Review) (7/31/2006 12:00:00 AM) Miller describes both the visible and the invisible with elegant ease. These poems dissolve the boundaries between things and across time, so that the strangeness of the world is apparent: 'the sunlight comes as if through a phonograph needle' . . . Charting shifting perceptions of an ever-shifting world, Miller's is a welcome new voice: 'What's at issue is air', he writes, words gripping its thick wet fur / while it fills us and leaves us.' Publisher Weekly, (Starred Review) Author InformationWAYNE MILLER was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, studied at Oberlin College, and after working briefly in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, received an MFA from the University of Houston. He is the author of a chapbook, What Night Says to the Empty Boat (Notes for a Film in Verse), and the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and Poetry magazine's Bess Hokin Prize. His poems have appeared in Boulevard, Chelsea, Crazyhorse, Epoch, FIELD, The Gettysburg Review, Hotel Amerika, LIT, The Paris Review, Poetry, Quarterly West, Sycamore Review, and on Poetry Daily. He lives in Kansas City and teaches at Central Missouri State University, where he co-edits Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |