Water Logged

By Nancy Anne Miller

Nancy Anne Miller has an impressively assured poetic voice and a deft use of imagery and language. From the domestic sphere of comforting chintz and Chippendale furniture to the weighty history of empire, 'fingered by time ... spotted by memory', everything is connected. In Miller's world, the geographies that shape our lives are key-from oceans which alternately hide and spill forth the secrets underneath the water-and in our hearts-to an autumnal Northern clime whose leaves lead back to the tropics. Past and present merge on the page with the tablecloth, the cutlery, the pain of grief and the joy of life. Here is a poet whose words evoke the world that is present in her tiny island home ... which is all our homes. -Sharmilla Beezmohun, Deputy Editor Wasafiri-The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing In Water Logged poet Nancy Anne Miller invites us to her island, Bermuda. Accepting her invitation is like falling into an artist's collage. I am immersed in an intimate collection fond of turquoise and pink, a product of years of personal history and observation. The waves offer their sandy layers-weeds, shells, stray treasures-but this is not a tourist's Bermuda, and not a history book's. In each of three sections, Miller crafts a catalogue of images and anecdotes so vivid that I imagine them punctuated with splashes of paint. -Kathi Morrison Taylor, Author of By The Nest A poet is a namer of things, happenings in the heart; a taker of the heart's inventory of loss and love. It is a fine poet who enables us to return from our exile to the past. Nancy Anne Miller's collection, Water Logged, is a work that reifies her home land, Bermuda, with nasturtium sandwiches, hurricane shades and straw dustpans. The poems deliver a world familiar and exotic, making us smile at, and ache for, that world which is gone. -Justen Ahren, Author of A Strange Catechism

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692574565
• ISBN13: 9780692574560
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Aldrich Press
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"