Wherever You Lay Your Head by Jane Miller

Wherever You Lay Your Head

Jane Miller

Poetry. Jorie Graham says of this poet: Jane Miller is an extraordinary poet … an astoundingly supple voice. Her seventh collection of poems is in part a literary homage to Hiroshige, Japan’s master print artist who immortalized scenes along the Tokaido, the Eastern Sea Road. One obeys nature and thinks of the rest of the journey/ in straw sandals and a paper hat. The leaves larger/ and light longer. I could do it in my sleep,/ my head a roadway peppered with mountain passes (Rising Smoke). Like Hiroshige’s prints, Miller’s poems are a window through which we view the joyous details of the difficult lives of innkeepers, cooks, porters, wrestlers, and men and women of the pleasure quarter. She freely draws from Hiroshige’s world to illuminate the cultural and moral grounding of the nuclear age.

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Details

ISBN 9781556591280
Genre Poetry
Copyright Date 1999
Publication Date 01-Apr-99
Publisher Copper Canyon Press
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 98
Language English
Rating NotRated
Subject FICTION / Lesbian; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / General
BookID 14487

Author: LFWBooks