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Lesbian poetry; explores the inheritance of grief and her Jewish ancestry; examines the modern-day hypocrisies of American citizens, such as racial prejudices and sexual objectification (timely!); The Boston Book Review compares Jane Miller's ""careening, associative"" verse to the paintings of Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns. All are inventive, energetic, and risky.

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An absorbing performance of art taken to the brink ... All of its parts contribute to a gestalt of living, loving and losing in a reel of feeling that nonetheless attains a bracing lucidity. This is an incandescent text. - C.D. Wright Book by book, Jane Miller has evolved a mode, a voice, a palette and landscape entirely her own, ... a composition of multiple planes and reflections that appears to emerge out of itself, true to laws of its own nature, and yet is disturbingly recognizable, continuously suggestive, intimate and beautiful. -W. S. Merwin A marvelously penetrating, synoptic poet, her best moments sublimely diagnostic. -Threepenny Review Her lusher effusions gain astringency from an achingly palpable heartbreak, and from an increased awareness of technology, commodity, politics: swoon meets zoom. - Karen Volkman, Boston Review Jane Miller is by far one of our best poets writing today.... Miller is like the NASA space station of poetry: out of this world, yet of it, and still looking down. From her peculiar and important vantage she blows us kisses in the form of images that hit their mark. - Lambda Book Report

“An absorbing performance of art taken to the brink … All of its parts contribute to a gestalt of living, loving and losing in a reel of feeling that nonetheless attains a bracing lucidity. This is an incandescent text.” – C.D. Wright “Book by book, Jane Miller has evolved a mode, a voice, a palette and landscape entirely her own, … a composition of multiple planes and reflections that appears to emerge out of itself, true to laws of its own nature, and yet is disturbingly recognizable, continuously suggestive, intimate and beautiful.”—W. S. Merwin “A marvelously penetrating, synoptic poet, her best moments sublimely diagnostic.” —Threepenny Review “Her lusher effusions gain astringency from an achingly palpable heartbreak, and from an increased awareness of technology, commodity, politics: swoon meets zoom.” – Karen Volkman, Boston Review “Jane Miller is by far one of our best poets writing today.... Miller is like the NASA space station of poetry: out of this world, yet of it, and still looking down. From her peculiar and important vantage she blows us kisses in the form of images that hit their mark.” – Lambda Book Report

An absorbing performance of art taken to the brink ... All of its parts contribute to a gestalt of living, loving and losing in a reel of feeling that nonetheless attains a bracing lucidity. This is an incandescent text. - C.D. Wright Book by book, Jane Miller has evolved a mode, a voice, a palette and landscape entirely her own, ... a composition of multiple planes and reflections that appears to emerge out of itself, true to laws of its own nature, and yet is disturbingly recognizable, continuously suggestive, intimate and beautiful. --W. S. Merwin A marvelously penetrating, synoptic poet, her best moments sublimely diagnostic. --Threepenny Review Her lusher effusions gain astringency from an achingly palpable heartbreak, and from an increased awareness of technology, commodity, politics: swoon meets zoom. - Karen Volkman, Boston Review Jane Miller is by far one of our best poets writing today.... Miller is like the NASA space station of poetry: out of this world, yet of it, and still looking down. From her peculiar and important vantage she blows us kisses in the form of images that hit their mark. - Lambda Book Report

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Jane Miller is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including A Palace of Pearls, winner of the 2006 Audre Lorde Award. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Western States Book Award. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.

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