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<p>This collection of vivid, readable, enticing poems is divided into three parts: Temples, Idols, and Relics. Temples deals with acts of rebellion with a push-pull reaction to, for example, the speaker's father: 'I am still / seething because my father beat me to all / that was lovely in the mouth and well in the world.' When she views William's undershirts she reflects that 'this / is not more to me than a man I've watched from a distance.' Idols reveals an eighth grade substitute teacher who 'had / a baby, but never a husband.' Miller also gives us insight into 'Blues' music that 'don't describe our lives anymore'; a college dormitory on fire, 'white bedsheets lifting a little / before the flash.' She also sees, without straining, meaning in flowers pressed in a book, photos of her grandmother's boyfriends, and riding a swimming horse. Leslie Adrienne Miller presents a series of ordinary images which seem to roll along smoothly until, almost casually, they zap the reader with more intensity than once at first thought. She makes us see anew.</p><h3>Minnesota Monthly</h3><p><I>Ungodliness</I>, Leslie Adrienne Miller's second collection of poems, is a nearly perfect collection. Not

Author

Leslie Adrienne Miller

Publisher

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Published

1800

Language

EN

ISBN

9780887481727