Wayne Miller
Wayne Miller is the author of three poetry collections: The City, Our City (Milkweed Editions, 2011; forthcoming) The Book of Props (Milkweed Editions, 2009) Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006) He has edited two books: Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life & Work of a 20th Century Master (Pleiades Press, 2011; forthcoming) New European Poets (Graywolf Press, 2008) He has translated one book: I Don’t Believe in Ghosts (BOA Editions, 2007), by Moikom Zeqo (trans. from Albanian) He is also the Editor of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, and teaches at the University of Central Missouri.
Reading List
[The child’s cry is a light that comes on in the house]
The child’s cry is a light that comes on in the house, when the street is empty and the trees are still. The light in the window gives voice to the cry, so when the windows are closed, we still …
After the Fever: A Pastoral
After four months, the fever withdrew into her, past the vanishing point, and now it was impossible to remember how fully it had filled her, like light soaking the tissue of a leaf. Outside, the traffic thinned to a word—so …