In this Book
- Club Icarus
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of North Texas Press
- Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
summary
Matt W. Miller was born and grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. He earned a BA at Yale University, where he also played varsity football, and his MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. His poems have appeared in Slate, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Third Coast, and other journals. His first book, Cameo Diner: Poems, was published in 2005. A Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University , Miller has been nominated for five Pushcart Prizes. Currently, he is an instructor of English and a football coach at Philips Exeter Academy. He lives in Exeter, New Hampshire, with his wife and their children.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- The Beauty of a Nail
- pp. 2-13
- Ballistics
- pp. 3-4
- Pall Bearers
- pp. 7-8
- Descent of Man
- pp. 9-20
- Exempli Gratia
- pp. 14-25
- Studies Show
- pp. 15-16
- Under a Bridge
- pp. 18-29
- Aruba, One Happy Island
- pp. 21-32
- Old Lad in the Castle
- pp. 24-35
- Candy Land
- pp. 25-36
- A Taking Out
- pp. 26-37
- Club Icarus
- pp. 32-43
- A Democracy of Devils
- pp. 34-36
- Paradoxical Undressing
- pp. 40-51
- Corrections
- pp. 41-52
- Like Superman
- pp. 42-53
- See You In the Funny Pages
- pp. 43-54
- The Best Defense
- pp. 44-45
- True Story
- pp. 46-57
- A Murmur of Birds
- pp. 50-61
- Mortician’s Ball
- pp. 51-52
- 12 oz. Koozie
- pp. 53-64
- Water Hazard
- pp. 55-66
- Kettle of Fish
- pp. 58-59
- Middle Flight
- pp. 60-61
- In the Bones
- pp. 62-63
- Still Falling
- pp. 64-65
Additional Information
ISBN
9781574415148
Related ISBN(s)
9781574415049
MARC Record
OCLC
840257049
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2013-08-12
Language
English
Open Access
No