For many years I stayed away from family keeping a safe distance emotionally and only appearing briefly at family events. My memories of childhood, my inability to make healthy connections in relationships set me up for failure. When a little at a time I began to explore the past and take a risk on rebuilding relationships with my family my life began to change in a beautiful way.
For many years I stayed away from family keeping a safe distance emotionally and only appearing briefly at family events. My memories of childhood, my...
InSTAR MAPNancy Anne Miller writes through the four seasons of Northwestern Connecticut beginning with winterin"ItHints ofMadness"with "icicles/ drooling from roofs, constant snow/ a kind of foaming" and ending in autumn, when she opens the poem "Tonic" with "Who knew death could dazzle?" These poems cover the decades Miller has lived in a bucolic setting. They show her early alignment with the British School of Martian Poetry and the years she learned to interpret the seasons through Dickey's "adventure of metaphor." In the poem "Star Map," "The frost on my windshield with/ connecting white...
InSTAR MAPNancy Anne Miller writes through the four seasons of Northwestern Connecticut beginning with winterin"ItHints ofMadness"with "icicles/ drool...
