Tender the River
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2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize
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Algonquin
anti-racism
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boyhood
Cameo Diner: Poems
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Club Icarus
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Manchester
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Merrimack River
Merrimack River Valley
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The Wounded for the Water
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Winnipesaukee River
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- ISBN 9781680032246
- Weight: 173g
- Dimensions: 149 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 06 Apr 2021
- Publisher: Texas Review Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Tender the River captures in verse the history and legacy of the Merrimack River Valley, from the Pennacook, Wamesit, Algonquin, and other indigenous tribes who settled there first, to the European settlers who came with guns and their god to supplant them, to being the birthplace of America's industrial revolution and first labor movements, to becoming a center of continued immigration, of entrenched nativism, and even multicultural celebration. The Merrimack River begins with the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers spilling from the White Mountains in New Hampshire, then travels down through mill towns like Manchester, Lowell, and Haverhill to finally spit out violently into the Atlantic in the old port (now posh) town of Newburyport. In its journey between those points and as well across the centuries, the Merrimack River Valley has been America in microcosm, many of the nation's democratic successes and demagogic sins being seeded there.
Matt W. Miller grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts and is the author of the poetry collections The Wounded for the Water (Salmon Poetry), Club Icarus, selected by Major Jackson as the winner of the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and Cameo Diner: Poems. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, he teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy and lives with his family in coastal New Hampshire.
