Only the Senses Sleep

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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 ...
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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.
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The 35 poems and sequences of this mature debut take an intimate look at everyday objects and incidents. Whether sitting in an empty room ("I was here/ each time a book opened in my hands// and my then-obsession dumped meaning/ through a trap door in the page"), writing letters to Sappho ("In the vast history between us/ so much has happened"), describing a sunrise, or elegizing a lost mentor "How inadequate this is (I thought// perhaps the paper could be made/ from your ashes)" 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"; elsewhere, the pills that will deliver Georg Trakl's suicide "dissolve word-like in a stranger's throat." The book is also rife with epigrammatic phrases ("pain is what pain does ") and remarkable descriptions ("The snow stretched from the cabin window/ like a drying sail"). 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." (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781930974654
  • Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University
  • Publication date: 1/28/2006
  • Pages: 84
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 0.30 (d)

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