The Limits

by Alice Miller

A writer of poems, plays, essays and fiction, Alice Miller has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow. Miller grew up in New Zealand and now lives in Vienna after some time in the United States. The poems in her first, extraordinary full-length collection ask you to force yourself beyond your own boundaries. Ours is a life worth losing, Miller says, let's unlace it from its post and see what creature it becomes . . .

Genres: Poetry

74 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Alice Miller is the author of the novel, More Miracle than Bird and the poetry collections, Nowhere Nearer and The Limits. She grew up in Wellington, New Zealand, and currently lives in Berlin, Germany.

Alice is a graduate of the International Institute of Modern Letters and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow.

Reviews

[erris · Rating 5 out of 5]

i really liked this. SO MUCH BETTER than the patten i had been reading ://

there were some poems in here (the ache in particular) that were near perfect i would say. every word was so expertly made and crafted to be placed into thoses specific spaces. not an inch was desecrated.
"i want to distill myself like the poets do"

fave poems:
-after battle
-recon
-antarctica ii
-album of cold
-the ache
-album of breath
-burn
-unearth

[Natassa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wowowowowow

[Sarkis Antonyan · Rating 3 out of 5]

We live in a staggering time signature


yes, this lunges, and yet, this begs too much