Poetry. SKINNY EIGHTH AVENUE is a surreal and extraordinarily witty intrusion into the flow of postmodern life, altering its course and in doing so disclosing the assumptions of its power. These poems are unique in their insouciant and insightful analyses of life in an age that is moving along too swiftly for everyone's good. With intelligence and humor, Stephen Paul Miller presents the world as at once full of play and utterly serious, in this memorable collection punctuated by whimsical drawings by his son, Noah. "Stephen writes his poems on an invisible surface that breathes and grows. It's like watching good poetry happen. It goes and goes. A little tense, but wonderful for it"—Eileen Myles.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA
Stephen Paul Miller is the author of several books including The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance (Duke University Press) and several poetry books including FORT DAD (Marsh Hawk Press) BEING WITH A BULLET (Talisman House, Publishers), Art Is Boring for the Same Reason We Stayed in Vietnam (Domestic Press), THE BEE FLIES IN MAY (Marsh Hawk Press), SKINNY EIGHTH AVE (Marsh Hawk Press), and THERE'S ONLY ONE GOD AND YOU'RE NOT IT (Marsh Hawk Press). He also co-edited, with Daniel Morris, Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (University of Alabama Press), and, with Terence Diggory, THE SCENE OF MY SELVES: NEW WORK ON NEW YORK SCHOOL POETS (National Poetry Foundation). His poetry has also appeared or soon will appear in NEW AMERICAN WRITING, Pataphysics, Zone, LIT, Zeek, Tablet, Jacket, Columbia Review, Black Clock, Mipoesias, Boundary 2, Columbia Review, American Letters & Commentary, Another Chicago Magazine, Paterson Review, Eoagh, Coconut, ZEN MONSTER, House Organ, TYGERBURNING LITERARY JOURNAL, Appearances, Brooklyn Rail, Critiphoria, which he co-edits, and elsewhere. His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry, Literature Around the Globe, and elsewhere. He is a Professor of English at St. John's University in New York City and was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.