Iron Wheel (Phoenix Poets) - Softcover
The poems in Iron Wheel are hard won, the product of the clash of cultures: Southern, religious, gay. Miller achieves an intense, disturbing, and singular poetic voice, capable of tenderness, but undaunted when forced to confront the harsh, often violent realities of contemporary life in the South.
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Greg Miller teaches poetry, literature, and creative writing at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. His poetry has appeared inAgni, Berkeley Poetry Review, Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Verse, and The Chicago Review.
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paper 0-226-52780-0 This slight volume by the Millsaps College professor, with its semi-formal verse, strikes a generally elegiac tone while brooding over the conflicts of being gay, southern, and religious. Word, in particular, sets the absolutist anti-gay sentiments of the Baptist South in the historical context of justifying slavery, and imagines suicide as one sad solution. Quieter poems create a collage of memories: doing farm chores with his father, his father cleaning corn husks for kindling, dressing chickens with his grandmother. The barnyard violence of Original Sin intrudes on an idyll of drinking fresh milk from the source, and the poet begins his deathwatches for friends and relatives, from stroke, old age, and AIDS. Northern places provide natural solace also, from clam-digging in New England to the image of an abandoned glass house, merging with its surroundings. Homosexuality here means both the sadness of a young boy exploited by his predatory teacher (Poem) and the lusts of an adult for a muscular, bare chested but wild Panhandler. At worst, student-profound, Millers modest verse occasionally rises to a hymnlike beauty. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0226527980
- ISBN 13 9780226527987
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages100
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