Iron Wheel

by Greg Miller

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226527970
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	03/14/1998
Series:	Phoenix Poets
Edition description:	1
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Greg Miller teaches poetry, literature, and creative writing at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. His poetry has appeared in Agni, Berkeley Poetry Review, Paris Review, Threepenny Review, Verse, and The Chicago Review.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Words
Poem
The Ringing
The Harrow
Stroke
Chore
Clay Pots
Farmer's Song
Slaughter
The Dresses
Story
Original Sin
Perspective
Iron Wheel
Intensive Care Waiting Room
Phone Call
Ariadne
Revival
Insomnia
Shield
Sockets
Dialogue
Dark Horse
Desire
Impediments
In a Time of Plague
Golden Gate
Milky Way
Panhandler
Song
Fire Flowers
Charm
From the Museum
Chain
Painted Desert
New Year
Animals
Meditation at Land's End
Glass House

What People are Saying About This

Fenton Johnson

Greg Miller has composed a kind of sacrament, in "praise both of the world and of release." In their sum, these poems offer the careful reader the vision of experience of that place where dark merges seamlessly into light; the house and home of grace -- unasked for and perhaps undeserved, but transformative all the same. Exhilarating, mysterious, troubling, profound, and finally transcendent.

Editorial Reviews

I particularly like Greg Miller's combination of the awkward and unfinished in feeling and tone with the "finish" of his language and versification. It's a difficult balance to achieve, but he manages it magnificently. -- Thom Gunn

Thomas Gunn