Perforated

By: Miller, Chloe Yelena

Chloe Yelena Miller's Perforated offers us intimate, confiding poems that ask us to lean closer. "Can you keep a secret?" the poems say. This is a book of lost friendships and lost loves, the world an "Ever rotating exhibit of light and dark," the regrets we have decades later over "what can go wrong / without the right words." Throughout, the speaker-always a mother who fears the future-worries about English vocabulary and newly learned Italian phrases, as if learning language might teach us to mourn more easily this difficult present or help us to find, at last, a place we might call home.

- Jehanne Dubrow,

author of Civilians

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1957755644
• ISBN13: 9781957755649
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Lily Poetry Review
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"