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Iron Wheel

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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100 pages | 6-1/8 x 8-1/2 | © 1998

Phoenix Poets

Poetry

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

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