Thunderbird

Jane Miller

Jane Miller brings a painterly eye to the elegiac in an ambitiously linked sequence that explores ecstasy and desire, memory and loss, the ancient and the ultramodern. Suggesting the thunderbird of indigenous lore as readily as modern American warfare, Thunderbird is a book of mourning and loss redeemed by the body and the mind.

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ISBN: 9781556594410

Format: Paperback

Evergreen

A fir denuded of its flat leaves  

rests on its side smelling

of the black salt seas as my brother my bellwether

slowly revives he hears you

our orphaned father scratching

in the wood box in the parlor like a rat

in steerage you grunt

uncomfortably from that old country

Fred now is not a good time

but I never turn back

never guess that you’re still here

in the ionized air of the white pine

in your right mind for the wrong reason

eternity

About the Author

Jane Miller has written twelve books, most recently Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions, and including Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel. She has performed her creative work and lectured on literature and the fine arts at universities, colleges, libraries, community centers, and public arts venues for over thirty years. She is the recipient of a Wallace Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Western States Book Award, and the Audre …

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