Thunderbird
Published on 26. August 2013
96 pages
978-1-61932-058-1 (ISBN)
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Our childhood such a large cellar with no bulb.
Jane Miller brings a painterly eye to the elegiac in an ambitiously linked sequence that explores ecstasy and desire, memory and loss, the ancient and the ultramodern. Suggesting the thunderbird of Native American lore as readily as modern American warfare, Thunderbird is a book of mourning and loss redeemed by the body and the mind.
Jane Miller is the author of nine books of poetry, including A Palace of Pearls (Copper Canyon Press, 2005), which won the Audre Lorde Prize. Miller teaches at the University of Arizona and lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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Jane Miller is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Midnights (2008, introduction by C.D. Wright) and the book-length sequence A Palace of Pearls (Copper Canyon, 2005), which won the 2006 Audre Lorde Prize in Poetry. Her awards and honors include a National Poetry Series Selection, a Western States Book Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Miller teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Arizona, and lives in Tucson.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Note to the Reader
- Dedication
- Contents
- ECSTASY
- THE TREE ENTIRE
- NATURE
- WISHING WELL
- ACCIDENT
- & DARKNESS MOVES IN
- STRANGER
- EMPIRE
- FEELING
- LOADED FOR BEAR
- MY SAD PONY
- WITHOUT THINKING
- ACQUISITION
- LOYALTY
- DOMINION
- CAMEO
- LEAD US TO WONDER
- BLOODY HOUNDS
- BELLING THE LEADER OF A FLOCK OF SHEEP
- METAPHOR
- TOGETHER
- SO-AND-SO
- STAR
- FREAKS
- RESEMBLANCE
- FUTURE
- VERBOTEN
- FAR CITIES
- FORGIVENESS GRANTED
- EVERGREEN
- TIME
- SNOW
- NOW
- LEADING MEN
- PHYSICALITY
- EXQUISITE
- DEAD
- LIGHTS
- AGAIN
- OUR LOVE
- THE INVITATION
- MOONSET
- BEGGING
- TOMORROW
- THAT I
- GONE
- CREATION
- BOUNDARIES
- SAVING ME THE TROUBLE & THE TIME
- MY HUMANITY
- FRIGHTENING MOONLESSNESS
- AN OPTIMIST & A FANTASIST
- MEMORY
- REPUTATION
- WROUGHT IRON
- COMES FROM THE SERVER THE SAME BANISHED WINES
- NO ONE IS HOME WHERE I ONCE LIVED
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY
- MY SEVERED HEAD
- DEATH'S YELLOW HOSPITAL DRIP
- DEMYSTIFYING JANE
- FEEDING THE QUIVERING NIGHTHAWK
- SURRENDER
- MARRIAGE
- LIKE A LOCKET
- A LITTLE MYTH
- MY PASTORAL
- BLUE FIELD
- YELLOW FIELD
- PURPLE FIELD
- CONSCIOUSNESS
- STATUES OF MOSS
- STICKS OF FLESH IN TRANSIT
- RAIN LILIES ARE GYPSIES TOO
- PURPLE THISTLE
- WRITTEN ON WATER
- ROMANTIC FIGURES
- QUIVERING GLASS
- WILD FIGS
- STREET OF DREAMS
- LET'S TAKE HOME ONE ROCK
- KNOWLEDGE
- LEAFLESS
- SHEEP
- GRANITE
- IN A TREE
- THE READER
- THE REINCARNATED
- A ROSE PETAL
- A YOUNG POET
- Books by Jane Miller
- Links
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Special Thanks
