In the Shop of Nothing: New and Selected Poems

Poetry. In these poems, celestial transparency is abandoned for the quieter glow of unruly paradox; as Miller writes, "Anterior dark/makes its claim upon light." Yet this poetry is anything but bleak. For the SHOP OF NOTHING culls the radiance of poetry as witness, as alchemical window ("This ghostliness may, in fact, be the very/stuff of form"). Miller's poetry locates the site precisely between gaze and image, effecting a mode of recognition that somehow conjoins love with love, presence with absence, ghost with flesh.