Yesterday Had a Man in It

by Leslie Adrienne Miller

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887482716
• ISBN13: 9780887482717
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Leslie Adrienne Miller's Yesterday Had a Man In It

In this, her third collection, Leslie Adrienne Miller continues to expand on themes explored in earlier work: intertwined phenomena of eros and intellect, the vagaries and cruelties of beauty and its transformations, constellations of desire and their effect upon the inner life of the artist, all offered in language deeply musical and meticulously detailed. Set against the backdrops of Germany, Indonesia, and an American Midwest fractured by a "deadly disaffection," this elegant book is populated with mermaids, arsonists, itinerant lovers and Italian porn queens, all animated by Miller's articulation of an insistence upon "appasionato," the music of ardent longing. Always walking the edge of exile from rites and rituals of late-20th century Western culture, Miller employs lament and meditation, dirges, dark humor and excavation to bring the palimpsest of the self and other "more deeply into being."