With Illustrations by Noah Miller |
Miller can be as funny—funny—as Lenny Bruce.—Jordan Davis, Paterson Review Our consciousness needs a new conscience: human consciousness needs a new keel. ome of its lines of design may be found in Miller’s poetry. —Sam Truitt, American Book Review Uniquely affecting. Miller has redefined the confessional poem.—Carol Wierzbicki, Brooklyn Rail Conversational fluidity and unstrained syntax enable Miller to address politics, current The lines snake and cascade across the pages, liberated from the flush left format…We have become the muse and are inspired by our transformation.—Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Brooklyn Rail Lively, brainy, probing…Miller’s erudite, humane, and yes, talky poems are punctuated by young Noah with exuberant drawings. Time in these poems is shown to be illusory and malleable. The effect produced is like a dream in which one suddenly realizes one can fly or breathe underwater: one can move forward in the present-tense-simulacra of this book.—Joyelle McSweeney, Constant Critic There's a new air in the fast-talking quality of these poems, which go beyond “New York School” casualness and beyond O'Hara's stylized “Personism.” —Madeline Tiger, Home Planet News Poetry lets go of degraded language, and, Miller talks about seeking a “replacement”…a-logical contingencies and analogies spark salubrious expansions of logic…intuitive processes in an ethos of dialogue inching toward democratic realizations.—“Poetry Suffuses Politics,” Jacket Miller closes a mysterious missing gap in American cultural history.—Jeremiah Creedon, Utne Reader Stephen Paul Miller is a New York City poet and playwright. He is the author of five books of poems, Being With a Bullet, Skinny Eighth Avenue, The Bee Flies In May, That Man Who Ground Moths Into Film and Art Is Boring for the Same Reason We Stayed in Vietnam, and a Backwoods Broadside. He is also author of The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance. He co-edited the NPF Scene of My Selves: New Work On the New York School Poets, which stresses poetry's relationship to painting. He has had gallery shows at PS1 and William Paterson's Ben Shawn Gallery in New York City. |
