This Miraculous Turning
Published on 15. September 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
84 pages
978-1-941209-09-7 (ISBN)
Description
This Miraculous Turning is a book that turns from nothing-the daily, the domestic, the little epiphanies. These poems are conversational, profound, narrative, and leavened with inimitable humor, often wry, often wistful. But these are also tough poems, thrumming with a quintessential helplessness that is so quintessentially human-what ultimately leads us to poetry to obtain "news that stays news," but to also restore our faith in the small things as the source of wholeness. You'll go back again and again to this wonderful book, and you'll tell others to get their hands on it. The poems become truer, more indispensable, with each reading. -Joseph Bathanti, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-941209-09-7 (9781941209097)
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A professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Joseph Mills holds an endowed chair, the Susan Burress Wall Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities. He has published seven collections of poetry with Press 53. His book This Miraculous Turning was awarded the 2015 Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry, and his collection Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers was called "a must have for wine lovers" by the Washington Post. His poetry has been featured several times on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac and in former U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser's nationally syndicated newspaper column "American Life in Poetry." In addition to his volumes of poetry, he has researched and written two editions of A Guide to North Carolina's Wineries with his wife, Danielle Tarmey. He also has edited a collection of film criticism, A Century of the Marx Brothers. He has degrees in literature from the University of Chicago, the University of New Mexico, and the University of California, Davis.