Poetry. In these poems, celestial transparency is abandoned for the quieter glow of unruly paradox; as Miller writes, "Anterior dark/makes its claim upon light." Yet this poetry is anything but bleak. For the SHOP OF NOTHING culls the radiance of poetry as witness, as alchemical window ("This ghostliness may, in fact, be the very/stuff of form"). Miller's poetry locates the site precisely between gaze and image, effecting a mode of recognition that somehow conjoins love with love, presence with absence, ghost with flesh.

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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).