The Book of Props

Author's Bio:

Quotes:

“The mystery of sleep, the way a lit candle makes one the center of the dark: Wayne Miller's an investigative reporter of consciousness, examining subjectivity as if there were no maps. And he's right, there aren't; every I awakes to its own peculiar presence—here given compelling form in rewarding, elegant lyrics.”

—Mark Doty, author of Fire to Fire

“These poems are not about the world. Rather, they are the world put into words. The outside world is visible in and through these poems, which are thrilling in their metaphysical questioning and deeply satisfying in their perceptions. I can’t resist lying down in the snowprint these poems make . . . Miller’s language is irresistibly sensual. Lush, lavish, and achingly accurate, Miller’s words have an almost corporeal realness to them—a kiss that becomes an object pressed between lovers, a ‘room that will be the ghost of right now / for as long as we carry it.’ I was transfixed by this book.”

 —Rachel Zucker, author of Eating in the Underworld

“Wayne Miller's poetry is entranced, luminous, supernaturally poised. He drifts through a world that is twilit, looming, strangely stilled, and somehow in need of his care, as if he had stayed up till some record late hour to watch over dreamers and scenes disarmed by sleep, a sad, fond ghost coaxing them to ‘surface into themselves.’  He is the purest kind of lyric poet, neither narrating nor explaining but saying over and over their beauty and poignance and power.”

—James Richardson, author of Interglacial