Poetry. Lovely letterpressed edition of 200. EACH DAY is a collection of short, tender poems which mediate on old age, where each day is fraught with both challenges and sweet victories: "There are, still, simple things / To live for: her sweet lips, / Then the day's first cigarette."

Author City: NORTHAMPTON, MA USA

Michael Miller's THE JOYFUL DARK is the first book of poems by an accomplished American poet who is currently in the seventh decade of his life. His poems have appeared in such publications as The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, The New Republic, The Southern Review, Ontario Review, and The Yale Review. His short stories have been published in Witness, Confrontation, Kansas Quarterly, and various other journals. His play Transplants, which won the New England playwriting competition in 1985, was produced by Oldcastle Theatre Company in Bennington, Vermont. Born in New York City in 1940, Michael Miller lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.