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It's as if a Philip Levine poem meets a Ray Carver story. Great stuff.
It's as if a Philip Levine poem meets a Ray Carver story. Great stuff.
It's as if a Philip Levine poem meets a Ray Carver story. Great stuff.
I'm reading poetry while I pedal my ass at the gym, biking nowhere fast. It seems as good way to pass those endless minutes and poetry is brief enough to complete a poem and not lose your line and have to search for where you left off.Millar's poetry excites me, his language is steeped in the coal country of his childhood, his nomadic life in the west from California to Alaska, fishing and fixing telephone cables. There is rust and drinking and absent women and neglectful fathers. Yet in every p...
I'm reading poetry while I pedal my ass at the gym, biking nowhere fast. It seems as good way to pass those endless minutes and poetry is brief enough to complete a poem and not lose your line and have to search for where you left off.Millar's poetry excites me, his language is steeped in the coal country of his childhood, his nomadic life in the west from California to Alaska, fishing and fixing telephone cables. There is rust and drinking and absent women and neglectful fathers. Yet in every p...
I'm reading poetry while I pedal my ass at the gym, biking nowhere fast. It seems as good way to pass those endless minutes and poetry is brief enough to complete a poem and not lose your line and have to search for where you left off.Millar's poetry excites me, his language is steeped in the coal country of his childhood, his nomadic life in the west from California to Alaska, fishing and fixing telephone cables. There is rust and drinking and absent women and neglectful fathers. Yet in every p...
I'm reading poetry while I pedal my ass at the gym, biking nowhere fast. It seems as good way to pass those endless minutes and poetry is brief enough to complete a poem and not lose your line and have to search for where you left off.Millar's poetry excites me, his language is steeped in the coal country of his childhood, his nomadic life in the west from California to Alaska, fishing and fixing telephone cables. There is rust and drinking and absent women and neglectful fathers. Yet in every p...
I'm reading poetry while I pedal my ass at the gym, biking nowhere fast. It seems as good way to pass those endless minutes and poetry is brief enough to complete a poem and not lose your line and have to search for where you left off.Millar's poetry excites me, his language is steeped in the coal country of his childhood, his nomadic life in the west from California to Alaska, fishing and fixing telephone cables. There is rust and drinking and absent women and neglectful fathers. Yet in every p...
I'm reading poetry while I pedal my ass at the gym, biking nowhere fast. It seems as good way to pass those endless minutes and poetry is brief enough to complete a poem and not lose your line and have to search for where you left off.Millar's poetry excites me, his language is steeped in the coal country of his childhood, his nomadic life in the west from California to Alaska, fishing and fixing telephone cables. There is rust and drinking and absent women and neglectful fathers. Yet in every p...
Exquisite eye for detail and a piercing sensitivity make this book an exceptional read. The lush imagery evokes a feeling of immediacy.I especially loved "Outside Monterey" and "Autumn Rainfall." Beautiful work.
Exquisite eye for detail and a piercing sensitivity make this book an exceptional read. The lush imagery evokes a feeling of immediacy.I especially loved "Outside Monterey" and "Autumn Rainfall." Beautiful work.
Exquisite eye for detail and a piercing sensitivity make this book an exceptional read. The lush imagery evokes a feeling of immediacy.I especially loved "Outside Monterey" and "Autumn Rainfall." Beautiful work.
Exquisite eye for detail and a piercing sensitivity make this book an exceptional read. The lush imagery evokes a feeling of immediacy.I especially loved "Outside Monterey" and "Autumn Rainfall." Beautiful work.
For a six-month period I worked overtime. Now I'm on vacation.
For a six-month period I worked overtime. Now I'm on vacation.
I return to Millar's work frequently. I like the groundedness of his poems, the way he stays with his image of the world: From "After Listening to a Lecture on Form." "I'm afraid of the mountains/in this thin glacial air,/of going to sleep in their shadow, that the granite inside them/and the threats of bright metal/may not hold once the night comes.I'm afraid of so many people talking,/the cat smile of the poetry scholar, his ridged skull./When he spoke of measure/I could feel my wristwatch tig...