Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Wherever You Lay Your Head
    Wherever You Lay Your Head
    Wherever You Lay Your Head
    Ebook82 pages30 minutes

    Wherever You Lay Your Head

    By Jane Miller

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    • Previous books include American Odalisque, August Zero, (OP) and Memory at these Speeds (CCP). Average sales: 1750 copies. • Other books include Working Time: Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel (1992, 0472064800, Univ. Of Michigan Poets on Poetry Series) and Black Holes, Black Stockings (Wesleyan Univ. Press, OP) • Recipient of Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, and the Western States Book Award for Poetry. • Teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona. • More accessible than other Jane Miller books • Southwestern feel similar to Arthur Sze
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopper Canyon Press
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781619320512
    Wherever You Lay Your Head
    Author

    Jane Miller

    David Miller is a writer living in Chicago. This is his first novel.

    Read more from Jane Miller

    Related to Wherever You Lay Your Head

    Related ebooks

    Lesbian Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Three Poems

      Jul 1, 2020

      She was a security guard and even though her uniform was black I could seeIt was covered in blood, the marble floor was covered in blood, it wasSlowly pooling out from the space where HER HAND used to beOh my god, I said, then I started to say, YOUR

      3 min read

    • Article

      Devil Asks Why You Would Mouth The Word Pity

      Jul 1, 2022

      even in this abundance of dark? Even in this abundance of dark you have totake the stars on faith. Look: Under today’s dim sky there is a basket.In that basket there is a fish. Come night, you are the animal that will eat the best parts of it. And ye

      1 min read

    • Article

      Follow Them

      Nov 1, 2021

      Heartbroken over a football game, Autumnevening, of this kind of thing I’m not ashamednor of the twistiness of that diction,or wanting America to burnthough only certain parts deserve it,its forests are beautiful and have donenothing wrong, even the

      1 min read

    • Article

      Poetry Rx: This Is the Year

      Jan 3, 2019

      Poetry Rx: This Is the Year
      7 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      May 1, 2023

      Let’s be GodFor a moment, Shall we?That which invites Composition,That which is suspended From a great height,The presence Of approximationHeavy in the meadows, I’m not afraid,And yet My shroud vanishesIn these lines, I am so weptPast weeping, And wh

      1 min read

    • Article

      Diaspora Sonnets

      Sep 1, 2022

      The old men drink their spritzers and gossipunder awnings. Red hued and blustery, like two roosters on the side of a road.Skyward they crane their necks and laugh, sometimes they wonder about kings and future kingsand how the muscles peer from their

      2 min read

    • Article

      from BLACK PASTORAL

      Nov 1, 2023

      somewheres, some lifetimes ago I have run so far, so long.There is nowhere I haven’t beenBut here, in this field, a bodyLength from the ragged brinkThat gives way to forest.I collapsed here, the thin, hard slipOf me whittled at both ends.I want badly

      4 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2021

      It is all, allover the earth, underearth, a graveyard: tree ferns, trees—roots,bark, seeds—ancientlife that emerged from the sea, forestsflooded to swamps& bogs, transformed to peat, transformedagain, sunk, coveredwith layers of earth with strangeamp

      2 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      Nov 1, 2018

      Moon river, swollen river, river of starholeand bright, harness river, lichen river,river we velvet with our filth.River of butter and river of witches, rivercracked open careful like egg, or burstapart, unleashing its violet load.River mouths, river

      2 min read

    • Article

      A River Runs Through It

      Apr 14, 2020

      A River Runs Through It
      1 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Nov 1, 2021

      What is the uncanny valley? asks the student and I draw the graph on the board, and point to the lowest point, and then move up the slope; This is like a scarecrow, it’s kinda shaped like a human but you’re not sure; This is where you’d put a mannequ

      6 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Mar 1, 2022

      Early such darkness, these oncoming nights& sure, I’m dull & even slow to concedehow mornings make equal, swerving measuresthere between those foremost shadowsalong the fence, amid the chickens & nerve,sheep & their indifference to any pair of foolsh

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Rails

      Dec 1, 2021

      The Rails
      1 min read

    • Article

      Nature Isn’t Always Nice: On Megan Kaminski’s ‘Gentlewomen’

      Jun 25, 2021

      Kaminski’s poetic speakers take aim at patriarchal and humanistic hubris, the aggregating centuries during which men have bent both heaven and earth to their methods. The post Nature Isn’t Always Nice: On Megan Kaminski’s ‘Gentlewomen’ appeared first

      4 min read

    • Article

      Must-Read Poetry: March 2019

      Mar 4, 2019

      For several reasons, there is only one thing I demand from my own lines, or from any poetry I love—I want to read it and to have a sense of having lived. The post Must-Read Poetry: March 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Dark Hooks

      Nov 1, 2021

      The critical canon has spent decades wringing its hands over Sylvia Plath’s appropriation of both Jewish identity and the particular tragedy of the Holocaust. In 1969, George Steiner wrote in his essay “In Extremis” that Plath “… was a child, plump a

      9 min read

    • Article

      Fifteen Poets on Revision

      Feb 27, 2018

      After 17 drafts over two weeks, Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” was completed on November 4, 1975. The poem began as notes, and evolved into a villanelle. She changed the title. She deleted words. She reached for possible rhymes. Brett Candlish Mil

      4 min read

    • Article

      All The Gay Saints

      May 1, 2020

      All The Gay Saints
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Lyrical Journey

      Apr 12, 2018

      He is too shy to tell that his lyrics have become so popular that even young Pakistanis are humming them and uploading them on YouTube. Most questions put to this 27-year-old, who recently received the prestigious Yuva Sangeet Natak Akademi for his

      1 min read

    • Article

      The Volcano That Shrouded the Earth and Gave Birth to a Monster

      Oct 5, 2017

      Two hundred years ago, the greatest eruption in Earth’s recorded history took place. Mount Tambora—located on Sumbawa Island in the East Indies—blew itself up with apocalyptic force in April 1815. After perhaps 1,000 years’ dormancy, the devastating

      18 min read

    • Article

      Two Poems

      Sep 1, 2021

      Two Poems
      2 min read

    • Article

      Toward A Unified Theory

      Jan 1, 2022

      Condemned to live inside the weatherof our moods What are you doing? Filling this bucket with waterand dumping it into the water They can’t excavate the amphitheater further because it extends backbeneath the houses We close their eyes not for thembu

      2 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Wherever You Lay Your Head

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Wherever You Lay Your Head - Jane Miller

      /qNabook_preview_excerpt.htmluV[6 0"bb$H-X;+IRE4#YIvWWUqxr zӠ[{#5ZЙ=>l;}zz4C(H2fS|6LԼh\Q.^w~C~|Ŧr2bZ2[%.[arX)`H4b:fh1h!{MKVVSbַHk9}A[2.ֵIThm$kٙ1Z %.(^b'dڃLV:$٢2ԥJAlHv9KNRpaT+ekwY{*@=nS0!`C_Awg})BͻM(Y مB9X!cOT3\{p w\0dAy2^w5=g[FChZ|hD54V C&=!iVD~o3=; Z$ftYPg mq$=Yʁ;HmJ6=aժ4Pm{nD,(ҩt8|`! B55y,dY@WwOU >^ |*hml_0["3`Õd`v`q+?LXZua7<:+w|.Hthw4ܼG`V0t-Y^ ^(i8`Px1?I5'Lp^huZ{^HBJqpoA1_~"}ā̳@ &AZIva1.y}-^Tɴeۥƨ3ofWf
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1