Rib Cage |
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| Author:
| Miller, Greg |
| Series title: | Phoenix Poets Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-52800-7 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2001 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $42.95 |
Book Description:
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Under the sway of the indelible storytelling culture of the South, Greg Miller has crafted poems from all that he hears and sees around him. Written in a language rarely heard in modern devotion, the poems in
Rib Cage show old communities disintegrating, extended families dispersing, and people in economic or personal distress struggling for dignity and a clear sense of their predicaments. From plain speech to evocative lyricism, from free verse to hymnlike eloquence, Miller...
More DescriptionUnder the sway of the indelible storytelling culture of the South, Greg Miller has crafted poems from all that he hears and sees around him. Written in a language rarely heard in modern devotion, the poems in Rib Cage show old communities disintegrating, extended families dispersing, and people in economic or personal distress struggling for dignity and a clear sense of their predicaments. From plain speech to evocative lyricism, from free verse to hymnlike eloquence, Miller deftly gives a voice and a history to the places he creates, places that, in the end, expand to encompass all of humanity.