Fortune: Poems - Hardcover

Millar, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597660264 ISBN 13: 9781597660266

Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press,U.S., 2022

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

JOSEPH MILLAR grew up in western Pennsylvania and received an MA from Johns Hopkins in 1970. He spent most of the next twenty-five years in the San Francisco Bay Area working at a variety of jobs, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. His poems have earned him fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Montalvo Center for the Arts, and the Oregon Literary Arts. His first book, Overtime, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. In 1997 he gave up his job as telephone installation foreman and moved to western Oregon, where he lives with his wife, poet Dorianne Laux, and teaches at Pacific University's low residency MFA program.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1597660264
• ISBN 13: 9781597660266
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80