Leslie Adrienne Miller’s collections of poetry include Y (2012), The Resurrection Trade (2007), and Eat Quite Everything You See (2002) from Graywolf Press, and Yesterday Had a Man in It (1998), Ungodliness (1994), and Staying Up for Love (1990) from Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Invisible Cities
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Midnight Spammers
The Kenyon Review · “Midnight Spammers” by Leslie Adrienne Miller This summer’s bears already knowwhere the people who make mistakeslive, where the garbage sits in sun too longwhile the guys […]
Invisible Cities
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Sovereign
The Kenyon Review · “Sovereign” by Leslie Adrienne Miller is the word that rises into the sharp glintof sun on the pond, the blue lapse and slapof it like a […]
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
And the Wild Grapes Do Their Very Bluest
She tells me you can eat them but not now, though I only want to mark their hue, a blue somewhere between the inner branches of spruce and the wake […]
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
Sumac
with lines borrowed from James Wright A scarlet staghorn sumac ignites the ditch and marks an end to one more teeming season in these woods. The furry wand is called […]
Writing in Code: Literature and the Genome
Winter 2006
Aim
The palaeolithic bowman well knew where to find the heart of his victim, and he has portrayed it transfixed with arrows on the walls of his shelter.—Charles Singer’s account of […]
Writing in Code: Literature and the Genome
Winter 2006
Wandering Uterus
Leonardo believed that semen came downfrom the brain through a channel in the spine. And that female lactation held its kick offin the uterus. Not as bad as Hippocrates, who […]
Poetry
Summer 1992
Temporary Services
Memory goes first, the personal spiral here, why we, they, are all alive and clean at 8 A.M. and leave bad backs, confused children, lovers out there. You’d think one […]
Poetry
Autumn 1990
Ungodliness
When the weather turns on me, washing out the foliage overnight and slicking up the ways between one life and another, I turn too, insist on going down to the […]