{"id":18153,"date":"2016-02-15T17:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=18153"},"modified":"2016-02-15T17:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:44:55","slug":"a-palace-of-pearls-by-jane-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/a-palace-of-pearls-by-jane-miller\/","title":{"rendered":"A Palace of Pearls by Jane Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Palace of Pearls<\/em><\/h2>\n

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Jane Miller<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Miller is a bold poet working from the ‘pure energy of language, without apology.’–The Boston Book Review<\/p>\n

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“Book by book, Jane Miller has evolved a mode, a voice, a palette and landscape entirely her own. If she were a painter, one might describe it as a descendant of cubism, a composition of multiple planes and reflections that appears to emerge out of itself, true to laws of its own nature, and yet is disturbingly recognizable, continuously suggestive, intimate and beautiful. Her subject is love and illusion and their revelation about each other.”–W. S. Merwin<\/p>\n

“Reading Jane Miller’s poetry is like channel-surfing on acid.”–L.A. Weekly<\/p>\n

Jane Miller is a traveler stimulated by ideas beyond our immediate sphere. In this book-length sequence animated and propelled by a confrontation with her dead father, she meditates on home, love, war and the responsibility of the poet.<\/p>\n

A Palace of Pearls is inspired by one of the most spectacular civilizations in history, the Arab kingdom of Al-Andalus–a Middle Age civilization where architecture, science and art flourished and Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in relative harmony. The reader roams through “rooms,” encountering Greek, Judaic and Roman mythology, and through the streets of fifteenth-century Spain and contemporary Rome in Miller’s most personal and associative volume.<\/p>\n

From A Palace of Pearls<\/p>\n

We bow our heads<\/p>\n

for the ancient draping of the gardenia lei in the hotel lobby<\/p>\n

and are relieved of our possessions as per a reminder<\/p>\n

that one must enter Paradise a little naked<\/p><\/div>\n

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