Tide Tables

Nancy Anne Miller's short-stanza free verse is distinguished by her imagery. Before devoting herself to poetry, Miller was a photographer and a painter. One finds both these visual orientations in her poetry. As a photographer, she takes snapshots of objects and captures them in their instantaneity; she feels through images, as in her evocation of climbing a spiral staircase in To Keep the Light where: The spinning steps up, causes a dervish trance, the ecstasy of circling. As a painter, sh...