Jane Miller
Encyclopedia
Life
Jane Miller was born in New York and currently lives in Tucson, ArizonaTucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
where she teaches creative writing at the University of Arizona
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...
. She has published seven volumes of poetry of which The Greater Leisures was a National Poetry Series selection. Her numerous awards include a Western States Book Award, a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Award, a Guggenheim fellowship and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Awards
- National Poetry SeriesNational Poetry SeriesThe National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program.Every year since 1979 it has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry...
Selection for The Greater Leisures - Western States Book Award for August Zero
- two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships
- Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
Works
- Black Holes Black Stockings
- Heartbeats
Prose
- Seven Mediterraneans
Ploughshares
- "Scene", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
- "Without a Name for This", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
- "A Dream of Broken Glass ", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
- "Eavesdropping at the Swim Club, 1934 ", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
- "Blanks for New Things", Ploughshares, Winter 1990-91
- "Warrior", Ploughshares, Winter 1990-91
- "The General's Briefing", Ploughshares, Winter 1991-92
- "Parts of Speech", Ploughshares, Spring 1996
Reviews
Poet Jane Miller collaborates with artist Beverly Pepper on a highly personal journey through the debris of the poet’s crumbling relationship, and her mother’s descent into illness. Beautifully rendered poems and short chapters of poetic prose combine with Pepper’s chalk and oil drawings to form an intimate and unique meditation on the nature of love, of heartache, of the many midnights we, each and every one of us, live through and carry with us through our lives.
A major accomplishment of Jane Miller’s Midnights is that she rescues middle-of-the-night ideas from worn-out truisms and offers them as the torturous realities they can be in experience.
Jane Miller is hardly alone in demanding that the structures of her art reflect the compulsions of consciousness, but unlike poets who allow pallid abstraction to attenuate emotion and song, Miller, as late millennium supplicant, won't relinquish extravagance, seduction, rapture, as essential elements of a poem's brash presence. Her human figure, careening through its volatile relations, "charge card in hand," indebted and reverential, makes of shatter a kind of atomized coherence, a kinetic, compassionate form.