Shine

Poems that arise from the currents of felt experience.

Joseph Millar's lyrical poems explore work, love, filial connection, life, and death. This is Millar's sixth collection, and it reaches a deeper, more sonic level than his usual narrative voice. A collection of half songs rendered in a hardscrabble lyricism, they are propelled by their shifting, irregular rhymes, half rhymes, and off rhymes. The poems' subjects grow from moments of daily life and their deeper obsessions--love, work, death, desire--and the making of art itself. Touched with more humor than earlier work, and with an unpredictable timing that seems to listen to itself as it travels down the page, the poems are part wonder and part reflection, carried along by their music.

Author: Joseph Millar
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780887487033
ISBN10: 0887487033
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General

About the Author
Joseph Millar is the author of Overtime, Fortune, Blue Rust, Kingdom, and Dark Harvest. His work has won a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Pacific University in Oregon and lives in Richmond, California.