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    Home & Away: The Old Town Poems
    Home & Away: The Old Town Poems
    Home & Away: The Old Town Poems
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    Home & Away: The Old Town Poems

    By Kevin Miller

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    In these poems, Miller drafts people, characters, images and events out of their familiar locations and contexts and weaves them into new situations, creating unexpected connections, original experiences. This new town is the locale of Miller's vital imagination.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPleasure Boat Studio
    Release dateJul 27, 2009
    ISBN9781929355488
    Home & Away: The Old Town Poems
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    Kevin Miller

    Kevin Miller has worked in the public schools of Washington State for thirty-six years. Miller has taught in public schools in Blaine, Gig Harbor, and Olympia, Washington. He currently teaches special education at Washington Middle School in Olympia. In 1990-91 he was a Fulbright Exchange teacher at Grenå Handelsskole, Grenå, Denmark. Miller lives in Tacoma, Washington.

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      Home & Away - Kevin Miller

      Home & Away

      The Old Town Poems

      Kevin Miller

      Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press

      New York

      Home & Away: The Old Town Poems

      By Kevin Miller

      ISBN 978-1-929355-48-8

      Library of Congress Control Number:  2008930742

      Design by Susan Ramundo

      Cover by Jonas Lerman

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      Acknowledgments

      Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following magazines and presses where versions of these poems first appeared.

      The Silence after March Beloit Poetry Journal

      Poem for Jonas Before Independence Day The Burnside Review

      The Battery in October Crab Creek Review

      One Kind Boy Crab Creek Review

      In the One Crab Creek Review/Tacoma Arts Commission Broadside Series

      Spider Said Crab Creek Review

      Box of Spider’s Crab Creek Review

      Eighth Grade Spring Crab Creek Review

      Your People Crab Creek Review

      Clown Curse Cranky

      These Matters DMQ Review

      Late August, Dog Days DMQ Review

      Near Spring, Old Town Gingko Tree Review

      Fall Gospels in Old Town Gingko Tree Review

      Anniversary: Four Plus Change King County Poetry on the Buses 2001

      At Clancy’s Fruit Stand King County Poetry on the Buses 2001

      The Water in These Dried Things Literary Salt

      The New Place Literary Salt

      Jim Returns Wearing Picasso’s Shirt Plymouth Writer Anthology

      He Nails His Poems to the Cabin Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf/Peasandcues Press Broadside Series

      When You See Yourself as You Might Be Poetry Northwest

      What Stopped You for Years Pontoon

      Sleeping Till Noon Pontoon

      Old Town Pears Seattle Review

      Heir Apparent String Town

      Poem for Flemming Palle Hansen String Town

      What Muriel Gave Jim Triton

      On Lunch Duty, The Principal Considers

      Intelligent Design Twaddle/also Cascade

      Dishes Voices on the Wind

      Horse Heaven Hills Windfall

      To Make Ends Meet zyzzyva

      From this Angle zyzzyva

      I am grateful for the Tacoma Artists Initiative Grant from The Tacoma Arts Commission, which assisted with the completion of this project.

      My thanks to Barry Grimes, Derek Sheffield, Joseph and Marquita Green, Peasandcues Press, Allen Braden,

      Casey Fuller, Loren Sundlee, Jim and Karen Bodeen, Blue Begonia Press, Jonas Lerman, Vance Thompson, Kathi Morrison-Taylor, Dan Peters, Mike Robinson, King’s Books, and Jack Estes.

      For Cam

      Small things

      make the past.

      Make the present seem out of place.

      Eavan Boland

      Table of Contents

      I. Home

      Poem for Jonas Before Independence Day

      Near Spring Old Town

      What the Day Provides

      The New Place

      Renting

      Three Bridges Building

      October, Commencement Bay

      Fall Gospels in Old Town

      Tacoma

      The Water in These Dried Things

      First Winter

      From This Angle

      Anniversary: Four Plus Change

      Understated Garden

      Apology after Saying…

      Walk Me to the Moon

      Conversation Before June Solstice

      One Summer

      You See Yourself as You Might Be

      Incomplete Plan for the End of the Year

      Clown Curse

      Saturday in December Light

      The Mail, November

      The Birthday Ministry

      The List of People You Wanted to Be

      Non-League Play

      His Place at the Table

      Dishes

      There

      Kickspace

      TableLate August, Dog Days

      Horse Heaven Hills

      Old Town Pears

      II. AWAY

      To Make Ends Meet

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