{"product_id":"watch-greg-miller-9780226526140","title":"Watch","description":"\u003cp\u003e Strasbourg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The yellow and green rose, and the pink rock, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chestnuts blooming, the cobblestone square, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur Lady's tower rising everywhere, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark timbered fronts; the mechanical clock\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhose rooster crows three times for Peter's flock, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Apostles, the old man's and the child's share\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf time--aspire I'd say to make me stare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd stop. I praise what I might otherwise mock, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe locked contingencies, the stock of losses, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBright liquidity everywhere channeled, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA storied cityscape of destinies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAverted as when, turning, a young Turk tosses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis hands in the air and my chest's pummeled, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"My brother, forgive me!\" and my thoughts freeze.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWatch\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eWatch \u003c\/i\u003esift 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eIron Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greg Miller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226526143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226526140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2009 pg. 86","brand":"Greg Miller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086415966463,"sku":"9780226526140","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c64e6df2-de19-4708-a62c-f818242a7fc1.jpg?v=1769094547","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/watch-greg-miller-9780226526140","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}