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Only someone who has a deep capacity to love and enjoy the music of life could have written these wonderful, troubling poems. There's a tenderness at the core of Fortune, where the commonplace becomes atypical and fantastical,a nd eazch poem possesses a voice that summons and reveals. Joseph Millar is a poet we can believe.--Yusuf Komunyakaa, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for poetry "If you want the real news of how America lives, of what it's like to be here with us, Millar will tell you with exactitude and delicacy in poems like none you've read before. He know a country, an America, that's been here all along waiting for its voice. It's time we listened."--Philip Levine, Ploughshares
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Joseph Millar's previous book of poems is Overtime. "If you want the real news of how America lives, of what it's like to be here with us, Millar will tell you with exacititude and delicacy in poems like none you've read before." --Philip Levine, Ploughshares
About the Author
Joseph Millar received an MA from Johns Hopkins in 1970. In addition to teaching at Oregon State University, Corvallis, he ahs spent much of the past two decades in the Sanfrancisco Bay Area working at a variety of jobs, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. His previous book of poems is Overtime.
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- PublisherCarnegie Mellon University Press
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1597660264
- ISBN 13 9781597660266
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages72
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