The Limits

by Alice Miller

The poems in this extraordinary full-length collection ask you to force yourself beyond your own boundaries. They are curious, restless, and bold; they marry lyrical music and intricate metaphor as they search for other human voices beyond the rumblings of the apocalypse and the stubbornness of myth. From bare battlefields to crisp Antarctica to the gates of Troy, from rewritten history to love story, these poems ask for something more from the world than just riding till the spoke breaks. A poet for whom one way is easy but an easy way is worse, Miller traces a path that leads beyond our limits to where we set the sky on silent, where we're braver than science, and where we try to unglimpse what we've lost.

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, ebook

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