MICHAEL MILLER
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 College Town

  Tebot Bach, 2010
  60 pages
 

  "In his extraordinary first collection, Michael Miller
   wrings a spare and astonishing beauty from the most
   ordinary of settings. His finely crafted poems pull us
   into a dreamlike kaleidoscope, bombard us with image
   and nuance. We travel his 'city awake on tea and
   subtitles,' walk his frayed neighborhoods and back
   streets, wander his desert, are captured by intense
   glimpses of his characters. In College Town, the sound-
   track is blues, playing faintly in the background as we
   read on: loneliness etched with love, the tenderness of
   ashes." -- Ricki Mandeville



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  The First Thing Mastered

    Tebot Bach, 2013 
    93 pages
 

    "Tracing an arc from infancy to adulthood, Michael
     Miller's The First Thing Mastered meshes individual
     experience with larger philosophies of causes, effects
     and aftereffects. From an infant studying a crack on the
     ceiling to a boy clearing a backyard of Santa Ana wind
     debris to a pre-adolescent growing up in 'a house of
     unsmiling men,' Miller finely crafts lines expressive of
     poetry's capacity to preserve and transform reality.
     From the nuanced art of these poems I learn how
     different patience is from movement, and yet, how like
     patience certain repeat movements can be." -- Irena
     Praitis



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  Angels in Seven

   Moon Tide Press, 2016
   72 pages
 

    "Angels in Seven brims with humanity. Like the
    woman with pad and pen sketching the neighborhood
    in one of his poems, Michael Miller traces 'the slim
    bones of the surroundings' throughout this collection,
    'the outlines of gathering, / the compulsion to touch
    and not drink alone.' ... Whether simple gestures done
    with no one looking or shared intimacies, Miller's
    work reveals the struggles and glimpses where we find
    meaning. And so this proves to be, ultimately, an
    optimistic collection, 'an incantation against silence,
    solitude. One rich with memorable lines. One that
    deserves a closer look." -- Grant Hier


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 Tea and Subtitles: Selected
    Poems 1999-2019


   Moon Tide Press, 2019
   114 pages
 

    "I am moved by so many of these poems. ... In clear
    language and with a poetic craft that carries us surely
    and cleanly through each poem, Michael Miller gives us
    ways of seeing that increase our sense of what it means
    to be alive in the world today, poems that point toward
    'true heaven / a light beyond our corneas, a truth
    beyond / the words we inscribe.'" -- Jennifer Horne

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