How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love - Softcover

Miller, E. Ethelbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931896046 ISBN 13: 9781931896047

Publisher: Curbstone Books, 2004

Synopsis

In this wide-ranging collection of lyrics, dealing with such themes as family, love, racism, and war, E. Ethelbert Miller sets his scenes against the backdrop of the stark realities of contemporary life, here and abroad. As both his love poems and political poems attest, Miller believes with full faith in the transformative powers of love and understanding. His poems on friendship and love are tender, often whimsical. His political poems are evenhanded and compassionate.

About this title

About the Author:

E. Ethelbert Miller was born in New York City in 1950. Author of eight collections of poetry, he is the founder and director of the Ascension Poetry Reading Series and the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University.

Review:

"On nights when we don't make love, it might be helpful to have some of E. Ethelbert Miller's alluring and captivating poems nearby. As intimate as they are seductive, come to think of it, they should be just as enticing, even on nights when we do make love."-Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory

"E. Ethelbert Miller has always been a Gandhi in our national literary world, and here his poetry matures at that bloody and bluesy crossroads where all his earlier poems spent their youth, their lives: love and poltiics. These poems move like the movies and are moving, in their exacting emotional turns. They are also a great retrieval for the poetry of voice."

—Liam Rector, author of American Prodigal

About this edition

• Publisher: Curbstone Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1931896046
• ISBN 13: 9781931896047
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 74