A01=Greg Miller
archeological digs
Author_Greg Miller
belief
belonging
Category=DCF
cityscapes
collection
community
connection
contemporary
creative writing
desire
discovery
emotion
environment
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expedition
experiment
faith
family
habitat
history
hope
landscapes
literature
nature
paintings
poetry
pursuit
religion
science
seascapes
spirituality
urban
yearning
Product details
- ISBN 9780226526140
- Weight: 113g
- Dimensions: 15 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2009
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Strasbourg The yellow and green rose, and the pink rock, The chestnuts blooming, the cobblestone square, Our Lady's tower rising everywhere, Dark timbered fronts; the mechanical clock Whose rooster crows three times for Peter's flock, The Apostles, the old man's and the child's share Of time - aspire I'd say to make me stare And stop. I praise what I might otherwise mock, The locked contingencies, the stock of losses, Bright liquidity everywhere channeled, A storied cityscape of destinies Averted as when, turning, a young Turk tosses His hands in the air and my chest's pummeled, "My brother, forgive me!" and my thoughts freeze. In "Watch", Greg Miller describes a fresh purposefulness in his life and achieves a new level of poetic thinking and composition in his writing. Artfully combining the religious and secular worldviews in his own sense of human culture, Miller complicates our understanding of all three. The poems in "Watch" sift layers of natural and human history across several continents, observing paintings, archaeological digs, cityscapes, seascapes, landscapes - all in an attempt to envision a clear, grounded spiritual life.
Employing an impressive array of traditional meters and various kinds of free verse, Miller's poems celebrate communities both invented and real.
Greg Miller is professor of English at Millsaps College. He is the author of Rib Cage and Iron Wheel, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
