Actual Miles

by Jim Warner

Part travelogue, part power pop catharsis, Actual Miles is Jim Warner's third collection of poetry and his first book in nearly a decade. Criss-crossing Rust Belt mining towns and Filipino rice paddies, Actual Miles finds Warner disassembling home and extracting language from record grooves and Mason jars to reclaim his identity as a bastard son of the highway.

Genres: Poetry

98 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 2018

Reviews

[Michael Lindgren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jim Warner has done it again, with "Actual Miles," a collection of loose, rangy lyric poems dealing with heartbreak, nostalgia, roots, music, and the lure of the dusty wide-open road. Many of these poems cast an aching sideways look at the author's Asian American origins, making it also a piquant investigation of ethnic identity and how it shapes our hungers and desires.

[Ben]

Read it. And blurbed it. Yo.

“With Actual Miles, Jim Warner is all texture, flavor and heart, a shock of senses and cultures, and always searching for family and identity, and the best ways to make them sing.”

[Marvin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fine collection of poems.