Against the Simple
eBook - PDF

Against the Simple

  1. 24 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Against the Simple

About this book

"What continues to affect me in Robert Miltner's Against the Simple is the silence that haunts the edges of experience and meaning. Like the lonely streetscapes of Giorgia De Chirico, Miltner's poems, often cast in brief sentences surrounded by an eerie quiet, haunt us with the unseen and the unheard which seem to lurk just around the corners of language and consciousness. Often his images 'tease us out of thought.' In poems like 'Eating Alone' the uncanny strangeness is almost hallucinatory. 'How true is the algebra of emptiness?' House Noises at Night asks. These dreamingly attentive, watching and listening poems are kind of answer." --Richard Hague

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. House Noises at Night
  6. The Sad Circus Comes to Town
  7. Hypothermia
  8. The Birds
  9. Eating Alone
  10. A Drought Year Journal
  11. Assuming the Moon
  12. After the Lighthouse Burned
  13. As Filigree
  14. Over the Border
  15. Just Another Card Trick

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