Strasbourg The yellow and green rose, and the pink rock, The
chestnuts blooming, the cobblestone square, Our Lady's tower rising
everywhere, Dark timbered fronts; the mechanical clockWhose rooster
crows three times for Peter's flock, The Apostles, the old man's
and the child's shareOf time--aspire I'd say to make me stareAnd
stop. I praise what I might otherwise mock, The locked
contingencies, the stock of losses, Bright liquidity everywhere
channeled, A storied cityscape of destiniesAverted as when,
turning, a young Turk tossesHis hands in the air and my chest's
pummeled, "My brother, forgive me " and my thoughts freeze. In
"Watch," Greg Miller describes a fresh purposefulness in his life
and achieves a new level of poetic thinking and composition in his
writing. Artfully combining the religious and secular worldviews in
his own sense of human culture, Miller complicates our
understanding of all three. The poems in "Watch "sift layers of
natural and human history across several continents, observing
paintings, archeological digs, cityscapes, seascapes,
landscapes--all in an attempt to envision a clear, grounded
spiritual life. Employing an impressive array of traditional meters
and various kinds of free verse, Miller's poems celebrate
communities both invented and real. Praise for "Iron Wheel""Miller
demonstrates that what Eliot said about reading a poem may be
equally true of writing them: the best thing 'is to be very, very
intelligent' and intelligence is not the same as erudition. Whether
the world is made, found, or named, Miller offers an engaging
portrait of things as they are.''--David Orr, "Poetry"""
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