Being with a Bullet

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Poetry. Stephen Paul Miller has just come out with a new collection of poems called BEING WITH A BULLET. "Somebody once said poetry without rhyme is like playing tennis with the net down. But Stephen Miller's poetry plays a different game in which the relevant phrase is 'nothing but net,' a series of subtle daggers, long bombs, and slam dunks: sly, funny, artful, and unforgettable. Highly recommended for sports fans and deracinated intellectuals who like being reeled into the net of critically smart poetry" ...
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Overview


Poetry. Stephen Paul Miller has just come out with a new collection of poems called BEING WITH A BULLET. "Somebody once said poetry without rhyme is like playing tennis with the net down. But Stephen Miller's poetry plays a different game in which the relevant phrase is 'nothing but net,' a series of subtle daggers, long bombs, and slam dunks: sly, funny, artful, and unforgettable. Highly recommended for sports fans and deracinated intellectuals who like being reeled into the net of critically smart poetry" -W.J.T. Mitchell.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781584980544
  • Publisher: Talisman House, Publishers
  • Publication date: 11/1/2007
  • Pages: 128
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author


Stephen Paul Miller is also the author of The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance (Duke University Press), The Bee Flies in May (Marsh Hawk Press) Skinny Eighth Avenue (Marsh Hawk Press), and Art Is Boring for the Same Reason We Stayed in Vietnam (Domestic), and he co-edited a collection of essays for the National Poetry Foundation. He was a senior Fulbright lecturer at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and he is a Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City, where he lives with his son Noah.
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Table of Contents

Dunk 3

Parade 22

Unabstracted, a collaboration with John Cage 23

Mudd's Club 26

April 03 27

Noah 28

Dip 29

Firewall 39

Order 41

Postscript 43

1 Bio

2 Judaism "Is" the New York School of Poetry

3 If Jews

4 Glean

5 No Later

6 Sun River

7 The Dove Floats Over The Wall

8 Like a Psalm

Tonight 47

Turtle Swims in the Sea 48

Poland and a Poem 50

Empty Fulbright 51

Here Comes Sunniness 55

Freaky Friday 56

Stephen Paul Miller Disease 58

Stephen Paul Miller's Disease 59

The Content in a Joke is Its Defense Mechanism 60

Carter Notes the Seals of the Necropolis 61

6 Things My Son Taught Me 62

Yankee Stadium 64

To Too 65

People 71

Doorbell 72

Bowl 74

There's No Perfect Rich Person 78

Pancakes 79

Automotive 80

Don't Worry, Be Haphazard 81

Linda Francis 82

Abnormally Strong 83

European Pie 84

Two Betta-Fish from Southeast Asia, Light Yellow "Namee" and Multi-colored "Circus," Beam a Dream to Noah 85

Squash Omelet 86

Choicest Blessing 87

Ralph Kramden Gets a Moonlighting Job Reviewing Dance for the New York Times and Can Now Afford a Child 88

Raphy 90

Theory 91

Sedgwicking the Stone 93

Bounce 94

Lately, I've Been Working as a Model in a Life Study Class 95

Hairline 100

My Mother is a Decent 93-Year-Old Friend 101

Mike 102

Con 108

Parable for Y W Needn't B Sorry 112

Vacation 113

Rise 114

Being with a Bullet 115

Intelligent Dasein 116

About This Wedding 127

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