{"product_id":"tide-tables-nancy-anne-miller-9781950462308","title":"Tide Tables","description":"Nancy Anne Miller's short-stanza free verse is distinguished by her imagery. Before devoting herself to poetry, Miller was a photographer and a painter. One finds both these visual orientations in her poetry. As a \u003ci\u003ephotographer, \u003c\/i\u003eshe takes snapshots of objects and captures them in their instantaneity; she \u003ci\u003efeels \u003c\/i\u003ethrough images, as in her evocation of climbing a spiral staircase in \u003ci\u003eTo Keep the Light \u003c\/i\u003ewhere: \u003ci\u003eThe spinning steps up, causes a dervish trance, the ecstasy of circling. \u003c\/i\u003eAs a \u003ci\u003epainter, \u003c\/i\u003eshe achieves a poetic equivalent to spatial perspective through her often startling metaphors and similes. Miller's poems brim and burst with images: an object evokes another object evokes another object. In this way, she gives her poems weight and three-dimensionality. In Mosquito Net at Elma Napier's Estate: \u003ci\u003e The muslin ties at the bottom, like a mango heavy in a string market bag she bought in Baptiste. Hangs like an exclamation mark for the filmy subconscious. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt times, as with \u003ci\u003eRelief and Postal, \u003c\/i\u003eMiller develops a single metaphor, mixing keen observation with humour; more frequently, the images succeed each other in a manner echoing a stream of consciousness narrative, as in\u003ci\u003e Every Civilization \u003c\/i\u003ewhere in describing a tea urn: \u003ci\u003eLiquid the colour of elastic downpours into an elephant's trunk in an empire where all human memory was stretched. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is by such imaginative means that she pursues her impassioned quest to express her several cultural allegiances, to Bermuda, England, and America, as in\u003ci\u003e Every Civilization, England Taught Me, and Postal. \u003c\/i\u003e Through her imagery, she manages, often wryly, sometimes tenderly, always playfully, to point up striking contrasts between these three Anglophone worlds. Her Bermudian roots hold her firmly and give to all her poems a textural vivacity and a sensuous liveliness; one comes away from her poetry refreshed as if one had gulped cold water in a dry land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-George Hobson, poet, author of Faces of Memory, a former Anglican priest for The American Cathedral in Paris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy Anne Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950462307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950462308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.26d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nancy Anne Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440183914751,"sku":"9781950462308","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f928347-66fb-4371-a36e-9040043d270f.jpg?v=1777180741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tide-tables-nancy-anne-miller-9781950462308","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}