Nowhere Nearer

Author(s): Alice Miller

NZ Poetry

 Doesn't language get tired? Doesn't it get sick of lulling us into believing all the *** we say? Isn't love also the kind of cruelty you give to someone because you can't hold all that cruelty in your own hands? All I know's I'm overflowing. All I know's I'm overflowing and I'm not sure how much of me the world can hold. - From `Epilogue' In Nowhere Nearer Alice Miller takes us inside a European world full of ruins and memories, haunted by Sigmund Freud and Eva Braun, betrayals and loss. Miller's poetry is clear and brittle, full of glass doors that spit the sun back. It is deeply ruminative, rich with the circularity of thought, the company of the dead, and the lure of alternative futures. Since you left me I walk around here a lot. I'm not dead, either. To be not dead, I claim, is the most marvellous thing in the world. These poems rip into pockets of histories, trying to change facts and voices, searching for the word's version of music's home key. They dare you to visit, through a series of cities, the futures we never let happen.

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Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781869409333
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : August 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Alice Miller
  • : Paperback
  • : 811.6
  • : 64