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Her poetry has been published online and in print, receiving multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations. 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Since then he has published more than 20 collections of poetry, most recently, \u003ci\u003eHell at Cock’s Crow\u003c\/i\u003e (Kelsay Books, 2023). \u003ci\u003eIn the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains \u003c\/i\u003e(Western Reflections Books, 1999) won the Colorado Award for Poetry. \u003ci\u003eDraft Board Blues\u003c\/i\u003e (FutureCycle Books, 2017) was named One of the Ten Best Books by a Colorado Author for 2017 by \u003ci\u003eWestword Magazine. 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In these poems, readers navigate the sometimes-precarious waters between wakefulness and sleep, life and death, treading in the liminal spaces of uncertainty.  In fact, it was the great Roman poets, Virgil and Ovid, who taught us, Somnus, the god of sleep, was indeed the brother of Death.   It is in this nexus where we find Miller revisiting memories of family and friends, the marvels of travel, the percipience of the arts, and ultimately, his musings on the “interconnectedness of all,” especially as he beckons us to confront the economic and health care disparities that so many still endure.  Miller reexamines a life lived while all along urging us to “feel the multi-grained texture of life \/ as it flows on ceaselessly \/ past even death.” \u003cem\u003eInto the Bardo \u003c\/em\u003eis full of wonder and wisdom.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003eManuel Paul López, \u003cem\u003eNerve Curriculum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInto the Bardo\u003c\/em\u003e plumbs the caesura between life and death with all the attendant fear, love, wonder and insight. Miller makes the case that this is the space where we are most fully alive. A lover’s whispers and her bright green eyes, each of them “in their own separate hells” yet “blissfully, \/ in the arms of a love\/beyond desire.” The interconnectedness between ancestors and his living son: “look at your hand and I’ll be there, always.” Most striking about this collection is the self \/ soul’s tremendous elasticity, contracting with interior suffering and then expanding to an “I am large, I contain multitudes”: crowing roosters, palm trees, ballfields, picket lines, shelves of books, crowds of beautiful strangers, gorgeous monsters of cities, rabbits at dawn, stars. That living and dying is as beautiful and unpredictable as improvisational jazz: “I am not my dying . . . 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In addition to his MFA in Fiction, he has a Ph.D. in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He teaches English, Humanities, and Labor Studies at San Diego City College and lives in San Diego with his wife, Kelly Mayhew, and son, Walter. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMiller is the author of the poetry collection \u003cem\u003eParadise and Other Lost Places\u003c\/em\u003e (City Works Press, 2024), and his novels include \u003cem\u003eLast Days in Ocean Beach \u003c\/em\u003e(SD City Works Press, 2018), \u003cem\u003eFlash\u003c\/em\u003e (AK Press, 2010), and \u003cem\u003eDrift\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 and 2024). He is also co-author of a history of San Diego, \u003cem\u003eUnder the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See \u003c\/em\u003e(with Mike Davis and Kelly Mayhew, The New Press, 2003 and 2005), and a cultural studies book on working class sports fandom, \u003cem\u003eBetter to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire\u003c\/em\u003e (with Kelly Mayhew, The New Press, 2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn addition to this he is the editor of \u003cem\u003eSunshine\/Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana\u003c\/em\u003e (City Works Press, 2005), \u003cem\u003eSunshine\/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana\u003c\/em\u003e (with Kelly Mayhew, City Works Press, 2015), and \u003cem\u003eDemocracy in Education; Education for Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e (AFT 1931, 2007). He has published poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in a wide range of journals and other publications, and, along with Kelly Mayhew and Doug Porter, has a Substack journal called\u003cem\u003e The Jumping-Off Place\u003c\/em\u003e as well as a weekly column in the blog \u003cem\u003eWords and Deeds, \u003c\/em\u003ea monthly column in the\u003cem\u003e San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e’s “Community Voices Project,” and he previously wrote for the \u003cem\u003eSan Diego Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eOB Rag.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback: 66 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (September 18, 2024)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlso available on Kindle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53362186289461,"sku":"nuh1787287159978","price":14.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/0059\/3717\/files\/into-the-bardo_1.jpg?v=1787287166"},{"product_id":"songs-sharp-tender","title":"Songs Sharp \u0026 Tender","description":"\u003cp\u003eWatch the book trailer of \u003cem\u003eSongs Sharp \u0026amp; Tender\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWatch the recorded reading of \u003cem\u003eSongs Sharp \u0026amp; Tender.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarol L. 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