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Rib Cage

Under the sway of the indelible storytelling culture of the South, Greg Miller has crafted poems from all that he hears and sees around him. Written in a language rarely heard in modern devotion, the poems in Rib Cage show old communities disintegrating, extended families dispersing, and people in economic or personal distress struggling for dignity and a clear sense of their predicaments. From plain speech to evocative lyricism, from free verse to hymnlike eloquence, Miller deftly gives a voice and a history to the places he creates, places that, in the end, expand to encompass all of humanity.

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88 pages | 6-1/8 x 8-1/2 | © 2001

Phoenix Poets

Poetry

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments
Little Town
Milk
Pastoral
At the Window
Intercessor
Home
River
Border State
No Map I Know
As Equals
Free Fall
Brothers
Mary Magdalene
Heat
Equanimity
Landscape Artist
Drift
Ruth
Music
Letter
Move On
Mystery Cycle
No Stars
Iron Brine
To Golden Calm
Garden
Broken Consort
Tending
First Day
Ark
Magic Flute
Prothalamion

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