The Limits

Author(s): Alice Miller

New Zealand Poetry

Ours is a life worth losing; let’s unlace it from its post and see what creature it becomes. . . . The poems in this extraordinary full-length collection by Alice Miller ask you to force yourself beyond your own boundaries. They are curious, restless, 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 re-written history to love story, they ask for something more from the world than just riding till the spoke breaks. A poet for whom one way’s easy but an easy way’s / worse, Miller in this collection 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 un-glimpse what we’ve lost.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781869408060
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : Auckland University Press
  • : March 2014
  • : 210 x 148 mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Alice Miller
  • : Paperback
  • : very good
  • : 51