A new & selected collection providing a comprehensive overview of an inventve, daring, and insightful lyric poet. The Boston Book Review recently compared Jane Miller's writing to Jackson Pollack's painting: inventive, energetic, risky. This career overview has more hits than misses, and allows the reader to trace Miller's development from a raw talent to a skilled poet. Typical of Miller's surprising and thought-provoking phrases, from "Immaculate View:" "love: the power of lust turned generous . . . ." This is hi-octane, inventive writing. Miller (August Zero, LJ 9/15/93) enters poetic midcareer with this selection from five previous volumes plus 15 new poems that focus primarily on her father's death. From the start, Miller has written about love, desperation, and loss for an audience that is not married to traditional narrative, syntax, and prosody. In the beautifully conceived "Picnic," Miller's version of a "Dejeuner sur l'herbe" scene explodes into a sexually charged epiphany that defies the sterile passivity of high-tech culture: "this couldn't take place/ on metromedia television, because the message/ is the corsage the woman has on." Miller's disjointed syntax will frustrate some readers: "Well my Cadillac now that the hog herding has begun/ big ones spray gunned/ is this the permission we longed for/ not in prose or stone but in action?" Others will read these poems over and over, attempting to piece together details of love (between women) and locale. Recommended for libraries lacking her strongest collection, American Odalisque (Copper Canyon, 1987, o.p.)?Ellen Kaufman, Dewey Ballantine Law Lib., New York Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Adoration Adventures Aplenty Lay Before You American Odalisque Any Two Wheels Art History August Zero Black Tea Blue Nude Blue Of Rainforest... Broken Garland Of Months The Butane Egg By Nature Cast From Heaven Centripetal Countryside Coupling The Cover Of Mars Desert Abstract Destiny Early American The Enchanted Forest Enfleurage An Eye Of A Queen And A Testicle Of A Bull Far Away Figure Fish In Chains Flames Light Up The Rough Walls And Earnest Faces Foundered Star Four Kinds Of Song, At Least -... Fragments For My Voyeuristic Biographer The General's Briefing Giants The Glass House A Gram. How Much?... Green Of Mildew And Of Verdigris High Holy Days House With Yellow Smoke Sonnet I Have Some Snapshots... Image Of A Saint Immaculate View Immense Virgin Girls The Impossible In The Film Version... Infrared Meditation Innocence Intestine Of Taos Las Diamonds Are Una Chica's Best Amiga Let Three Days Pass Lies Like Shower Over The Heart... Lizards And Ants Yes,... Lost White Brother Marin Headlands May You Always Be The Darling Of Fortune Melons Best... Memory At These Speeds Metaphysics At Lake Oswego Miami Heart Near You Are Heavenly Bodies New Body Not Ever O Pioneers! O Restless One... O'keeffean Of Those We Have... One Radiant Morning The Only Cool Day... Ozone Avenue Peace Lyric Picnic The Poet Poetry Possession Red Hills And Sky Remember How Close We Sat... Scattered Alphabet Screening Sculpture Self-contained View: 'i Am A Woman,' Separation She Liked To Be In The Middle. One Of Them Was Taken By How Close She Rose From Them... She Whispered Anemones... Sonnet Against Nuclear Weapons The Sparrows We Weep We See Spiral In Vermillion Steamy Meditatioon Sunset Over Handmade Church Sycamore Mall Sympathetique There's A Song Of Privacy... They Would Send Her To A Hotel... Though Not Admonished Of Your Intentions In Work Three Secrets For Alexis Tilt To Have By Heart... Topos Troika For Lovers Tulips For Two And Four Hands Under The Zanzariere The Unveiling The Very Perfume... Video Rain We Parked And Hiked And Climbed... Which Religion Vouchsafes A Winter Of Love Letters And A Morning Prayer: 5 A Winter Of Love Letters And A Morning Prayer: 7 With The World Women Who Fly... Your Aunt's Daughter... -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® Jane Miller is the author of eight previous books of poetry and essays. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award. She lives in Tucson and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Arizona, having served as the program's director 1999-2003.