Poetry. Signed Limited Edition. Poems that sift and resift the lessons of perception, of "raw" experience, but in order to open them into more complex compounds of vision, emotion and thought. Webs of vivid epiphanies probe the human story and the sensuous worldwith the aim of defining just what it means to be alive, and think. "David Miller searches for the ineffable, for indices of being (not W.C.Williams's 'ideas') among things. He is phenomenologist rather than semiotician. The codes are to be broken (apart) rather than decoded, since we cannot know what it was that was encoded in the first price.... Miller has absorbed the aesthetics of the Objectivists and is one of the few to hive adopted this without turning it into a national pastoralism of flower poems or delicate transcriptions of inconsequential occurrences"—Robert Sheppard.

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David Miller was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1950, and has lived in London, England, since 1972. His recent publications include THE WATERS OF MARAH (Singing Horse Press, 2003 / Shearsman Books, 2005), The Dorothy and Benno Stories (Reality Street Editions, 2005), and IN THE SHOP OF NOTHING: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007). He has compiled British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of "Little Magazines" (with Richard Price, The British Library, 2006) and edited The Lariat and Other Writings by Jaime de Angulo (Counterpoint, 2009). He has been working on the Spiritual Letters project since 1995. A double CD recording of David Miller reading Spiritual Letters (Series 1-5) is available from LARYNX (London).