ISBN 9780978600983
Poetry | 5"x8", 142 pages, perfectbound| $14
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"[David Miller's] poetry of meticulous observation is not merely descriptive, striving as it does for the intuitive moment, which flickers, however briefly, in language; attempting to reveal how the ordinary and simple can disclose the transcendent . . ."
—Tim Woods, from The Poet's Voice

"Enter David Miller’s Shop of Nothing with all due stealth, for only there will you see how 'reason’s heavenly city / is shattered / into shiny debris.' In these poems, celestial transparency is abandoned for the quieter glow of unruly paradox; as Miller writes, 'Anterior dark / makes its claim upon light.' Yet this poetry is anything but bleak. For The Shop of Nothing culls the radiance of poetry as witness, as alchemical window ('This ghostliness may, in fact, be the very / stuff of form'). Miller’s poetry locates the site precisely between gaze and image, effecting a mode of recognition that somehow conjoins love with love, presence with absence, ghost with flesh. As the poet writes eloquently: image death bleeds towards total light or total dark, pulling the forms into that obscurity of light or dark. Gate: possible."
—Elizabeth Robinson, author of Inaudible Trumpeters, Bed of Lists, Under That Silky Roof, and others