Y: Poems

If the face is a christening in flesh,

the boy of him is its opposite,

raising the tent of bones in which

he will harbor all the starry anomalies

that a knowledge of God cannot undo.

—from "Y"

Y is poet Leslie Adrienne Miller's book of the looming child, the son, the cipher, the letter for which a math problem seeks a solution. Collaging lyric investigation, personal reflection, and hard...