Search - List of Books by Jane Miller

• National Poetry Series Selection for The Greater Leisures
• Western States Book Award for August Zero
• two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships
• Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

• "Innocence", Poetry Foundation
• "from A Palace of Pearls", Boston Review, APRIL/MAY 2005

• Black Holes Black Stockings
• Heartbeats

Anthologies

Prose

• "Humility", Ploughshares, Winter 2001-02

• Seven Mediterraneans

Essays

Ploughshares

• "Scene", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
• "Without a Name for This", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
• "A Dream of Broken Glass ", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
• "Eavesdropping at the Swim Club, 1934 ", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
• "Blanks for New Things", Ploughshares, Winter 1990-91
• "Warrior", Ploughshares, Winter 1990-91
• "The General's Briefing", Ploughshares, Winter 1991-92
• "Parts of Speech", Ploughshares, Spring 1996

Poet Jane Miller collaborates with artist Beverly Pepper on a highly personal journey through the debris of the poet’s crumbling relationship, and her mother’s descent into illness. Beautifully rendered poems and short chapters of poetic prose combine with Pepper’s chalk and oil drawings to form an intimate and unique meditation on the nature of love, of heartache, of the many midnights we, each and every one of us, live through and carry with us through our lives.

A major accomplishment of Jane Miller’s Midnights is that she rescues middle-of-the-night ideas from worn-out truisms and offers them as the torturous realities they can be in experience.

Jane Miller is hardly alone in demanding that the structures of her art reflect the compulsions of consciousness, but unlike poets who allow pallid abstraction to attenuate emotion and song, Miller, as late millennium supplicant, won't relinquish extravagance, seduction, rapture, as essential elements of a poem's brash presence. Her human figure, careening through its volatile relations, "charge card in hand," indebted and reverential, makes of shatter a kind of atomized coherence, a kinetic, compassionate form.