Publisher's Synopsis
This collection draws heavily from the core devotional
strain in Miller's poetry, offering what novelist Fenton
Johnson described in his review of Iron Wheel as
"the vision and experience of that place where dark
merges seamlessly into light; the house and home of
grace-unasked for and perhaps undeserved, but
transformative all the same." Framed by meditations
on the beginnings and possible post-human ends
of culture, the new poems reflect on the callings
and limits of art in responding to desire, history,
mortality, and injustice. Set in the American South,
Wales, France, the Czech Republic, and Sudan, the
poems address and invoke the divine
