A collection of poetry by Leslie Adrienne Miller.

Staying Up for Love

Literature & Fiction

Miller, Leslie Adrienne

Poetry

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

"This collection of vivid, readable, enticing poems is divided into three parts: Temples, Idols, and Relics.  Temples deals with acts of rebellion with a push-pull reaction to, for example, the speaker's father: 'I am still / seething because my father beat me to all / that was lovely in the mouth and well in the world.'  When she views William's undershirts she reflects that 'this / is not more to me than a man I've watched from a distance.' Idols reveals an eighth grade substitute teacher who 'had / a baby, but never a husband.'  Miller also gives us insight into 'Blues' music that 'don't describe our lives anymore'; a college dormitory on fire, 'white bedsheets lifting a little / before the flash.'  She also sees, without straining, meaning in flowers pressed in a book, photos of her grandmother's boyfriends, and riding a swimming horse.  Leslie Adrienne Miller presents a series of ordinary images which seem to roll along smoothly until, almost casually, they zap the reader with more intensity than once at first thought.  She makes us see anew." (Ohioana Quarterly, Fall 1995)

Ungodliness (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

"This collection of vivid, readable, enticing poems is divided into three parts: Temples, Idols, and Relics. Temples deals with acts of rebellion with a push-pull reaction to, for example, the speaker's father: 'I am still / seething because my father beat me to all / that was lovely in the mouth and well in the world.' When she views William's undershirts she reflects that 'this / is not more to me than a man I've watched from a distance.' Idols reveals an eighth grade substitute teacher who 'had / a baby, but never a husband.' Miller also gives us insight into 'Blues' music that 'don't describe our lives anymore'; a college dormitory on fire, 'white bedsheets lifting a little / before the flash.' She also sees, without straining, meaning in flowers pressed in a book, photos of her grandmother's boyfriends, and riding a swimming horse. Leslie Adrienne Miller presents a series of ordinary images which seem to roll along smoothly until, almost casually, they zap the reader with more intensity than once at first thought. She makes us see anew." (Ohioana Quarterly, Fall 1995)

Ungodliness

"Leslie Adrienne Miller's poems are tickets to some fascinating places-- scary, fantastic places like Indonesia and Berlin and Zanesville, Ohio; the riot-torn country of adolescence; the tough villages of family and friendship; and, again and again, the dark, trackless, lovely forests of desire. Writing utterly from within her own skin, from her specific heart housed in her exact, particular bones, she's a poet also and absolutely of the larger world, of foreign places, foreign tongues, and she writes about the other as intimately as if she shared its blood." Lon Otto

Yesterday Had a Man in It

Fini, Leonor

Costanzo, Gerald

Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr Center for

Reading Miller's poetry has been likened to obtaining tickets to exotic places both real and imagined. In Eat Quite Everything You See - the fourth collection of her verse - she offers a wry and compelling series of wanderings through the ever-changing landscapes of Europe. With an inquisitive spirit and a generous sense of humor, Miller investigates the experience of otherness in a foreign land, exploring also the phenomena of human culture, womanhood, independence, desire, and love.

Eat Quite Everything You See: Poems

Graywolf Press

Poet Leslie Adrienne Miller's brilliant and provocative exploration of anatomical texts and historical assumptions about the body
Whoever they were, they're still with us, posing demurely in suits of blood and muscle, the bruised shadows of what skin they do have . . . ―from "Gautier d'Agoty's Écorchés"
"The resurrection trade," the business of trafficking in corpses, is an old trade, one that makes possible the art of anatomy and, as poet Leslie Adrienne Miller discovers, the art of her own book. Miller delves into the mysteries of early anatomical studies and medical illustrations and finds there stories of women's lives―sometimes tragic, sometimes comic―as exposed as the drawings themselves. These meticulously researched and rendered poems become powerful testimonies to women's bodies objectified and misunderstood throughout history. Miller's sensuous and harrowing fifth collection brings a new truth to what she calls "the strange collusion of imaginary science and real art."

The Resurrection Trade

The new book by Leslie Adrienne Miller, whose poems "are delightfully eclectic, learned and wise" (Ted Kooser) If the face is a christening in flesh, the boy of him is its opposite, raising the tent of bones in which he will harbor all the starry anomalies that a knowledge of God cannot undo. ―from "Y"
Y is poet Leslie Adrienne Miller's book of the looming child, the son, the cipher, the letter for which a math problem seeks a solution. Collaging lyric investigation, personal reflection, and hard research into psychology and childhood development, Miller describes motherhood with a broad-ranging intelligence, a fierce humor, and an elegant, emotive poetic line.

Y: Poems

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