Paper Banners / Jane Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Jane, 1897- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

English poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2023]

Summary:

A herald of desire, mortality, and the mission of poetry itself, Jane Miller's Paper Banners catalogs the intimate experiences that create a life, hoping that "what will survive of us is love." A herald of desire, suffering, mortality, and the mission of poetry itself, Jane Miller's Paper Banners "say the cosmos/ isn't hostile/ yet strangles a dove /with one hand." Against this angst, Miller steps outside of history to contemplate voices of love, aging, and artmaking. Many poems are addressed to family members, friends, and young poets, or pay homage to familiar figures taken by time or tragedy, including Virginia Woolf, Osip Mandelstam, and the Song Dynasty poet Li Qingzhao. In clear, short lines, these poems harken to ancient banderoles, or pennants, which announced rallying cries on the lances of knights and mottoes on the flags of ships. Here, Miller's Paper Banners are made of images of the American Southwest and scrutinize its political and physical landscape. Like skywriting streamed in white smoke, this collection bears its message on the wind, its words addressed to anyone. As Miller catalogs the intimate experiences that make up a life--friendships, loves, dreams, our human connection to the environment-- Paper Banners becomes a hope that "what will survive of us is love."

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Note to the Reader

Dedication

Contents

I

The Grand Piano

The Lovers

Harmless Ode with Osip Mandelstam

Jade River

Idyll

Aesthetic Argument

The Thatched Cottage

The Missing Apricot Tree

Enflamed Ode

II

Paper Banners

Augury

At the Magistrate

Homage to Order with Disorder in Last Stanza

Chekhov Parks His Corvette

Bird with One Leg

Pompeii

Have Courage and Be Kind

Meadow with Standing Crows

Jasmine in a Foreign Country

Fundamentals

Sunshower

Children versus Generals

III

Elegy with Last Lines in the Form of Haiku

The Plot of Hamlet

The Call to Mindfulness

Roadhouse

Lament with a Few Lines in New York

The Queen Loves Roses, the Peasant Loves Roses and Shade

Stand in the Rain or Not. Never to Splash in a Fountain or Swim in a Sea

Poetry Opposed to Religion

What Can Run but Never Walks, Has a Mouth but Never Talks, Has a Head but Never Weeps, Has a Bed but Never Sleeps? A River. A Sonnet

Consolation and Misery

Oysters in West Marin

Dinner Party

Pablo Casals, Sand Dollar with Embossed Drawing

Pilgrims versus Emperors

Forager

The Bell Slurs in the Blowing Spray

Heaven Rushing Out

About the Author

Books by Jane Miller

Acknowledgments

Copyright

Special Thanks.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Miller, Jane Paper Banners

ISBN:

1-61932-283-8

OCLC:

1409691382