Blue Rust (Carnegie Mellon Poetry (Paperback)) - Softcover

Millar, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887485499 ISBN 13: 9780887485497

Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Like Conrad's Marlow, Joseph Millar speaks with fierce compassion and the authority of hard-won experience. In his remarkable third collection, Blue Rust, he lays down "the shield of irony" without taking up the consolations of easy sentiment or detached despair. The result is an unstrained originality: lyrics that avoid the metronome, leaps of imagination in which the associative logic never trails off into self-indulgent incoherence. Millar looks hard at a world that is doomed and beautiful. What sets Blue Rust apart is its ability to honor both sides.

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Review:

There's so much kindness and honesty in these poems . . . long spiraling sentences full of used cars and kung pao chicken, umbilical blood and rent money, lentils and sausage and death. . . . "Blue Rust" is a big beautiful book of poems--moving, sensuous, artful, full of courage and blessings. I love it.

--Tony Hoagland

This book is terrific. Whether it's the true grit of blue rust or the true reckoning of the "blue compass needle," Millar's poems show us the verities of our human journeys. This is truly a poet of the people, a voice for our time.

--Barbara Ras

Millar writes about people with grease on their hands, ordinary men and women trying to make it in a hard luck world. His poems always seem to be in motion, arriving or departing, true to the rhythm of our lives. He can be as consoling as a lucky red sweater, and as irreverent as your middle finger. He's a pleasure at every turn of the page.

--Peter Everwine

Joseph Millar's "Blue Rust" is one of the most beauti

About this edition

• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0887485499
• ISBN 13: 9780887485497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88