The City, Our City

by Wayne Miller

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A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on ""the City."" It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city?past, present, and future?ring out with urgency. These poems?in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful?give hum to our modern show more experience, to those caught up in ""the City""'s immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new show less

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Wayne Miller teaches at Central Missouri State University.

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Fiction and Literature, Poetry, Music
DDC/MDS
811.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry2000-
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PS3613 .I56245 .C58Language and LiteratureAmerican literature
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