How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love.How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love by E. Ethelbert Miller, Curbstone curb·stone n. A stone or row of stones that constitutes a curb. adj. Untrained or unsophisticated; amateurish: a curbstone commentator. Noun 1. Press April 2004, $12.95, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 1-931-89604-6 Miller's uncanny ability to make the natural words of longing and respite feel like translations allow us to receive his sexuality: "my fingers so wet / from your rain" or "Your mouth is like an ocean / I watch the waves come." For Miller, poetry is made real through sensuality. There are astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, images that fill the nose and surprise the tongue. From "A Portrait in Nine Lines": ...The wind sits in a park reading a book of your poems...." And then in its companion "A Portrait of Yes in Fourteen Lines": ...I was hungry for love. I cried when the crumbs were gone.... Much of the book is colored by the tragedies of the times--the attack on the World Trade Center towers, the war in Iraq, the suicide of a dear friend. Miller's voice is tinged with the weight of the times. Miller reaches his apex in the power of image and perhaps this is best revealed in the poem "Nails," a narrative that allows us moments in the life of Brooklyn boys Brooklyn Boy is a play by American playwright Donald Margulies. Novelist Eric Weiss, critically celebrated but unsuccessful, "arrives" when his new, autobiographical novel becomes a best-seller. and Palestinian suicide bombers Noun 1. suicide bomber - a terrorist who blows himself up in order to kill or injure other people act of terrorism, terrorism, terrorist act - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political . "Nails" reaches its unsettling un·set·tle v. un·set·tled, un·set·tling, un·set·tles v.tr. 1. To displace from a settled condition; disrupt. 2. To make uneasy; disturb. v.intr. end with its last four lines: How many other young men are busy counting the fingers on their hands, waiting to escape into paradise nails exploding in their hearts? Treasure Williams is an editor, journalist, educator and emerging poet in Memphis. |
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