"Stephen Paul Miller is the Last of the New York School. His poems articulate like Ashbery's, collide like Koch's, shimmy like Schuyler's and orbit like O'Hara's."—Bob Holman
Poetry. "'Isn't intimacy the thin ice / of address?,' asks Stephen Miller's endlessly jaunty and energetic narrator. And he adds, 'I mean if we become one another.' Throughout this irrepressible series of imaginative intimacies and confrontations (w...
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Poetry. "If Walt Whitman had taken a Ph.D. in literary theory at New York University in the 1980s, and then wrote poetry, the outcome might have resembled THE BEE FLIES IN MAY. Following John Barth, Miller has constructed a funhouse: his musings ref...
Poetry. "Somebody once said poetry without rhyme is like playing tennis with the net down. But Stephen Miller's poetry plays a different game in which the relevant phrase is 'nothing but net,' a series of subtle daggers, long bombs, and slam dunks: ...
Poetry. Illustrated by Noah Miller. "Our consciousness needs a new conscience: human consciousness needs a new keel. Some of its lines of design may be found in Miller's poetry"—Sam Truitt, American Book Review. "Conversational fluidity and unstrain...
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 an...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "Stephen Paul Miller has written the most swingin', rockin', jazzy history of Judaism, Jews, and our favorite one and only God there is, that you will ever read. In verse. And if you read it you will have to think about it. W...