{"title":"Joseph Millar","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Millar is an American poet whose plainspoken, working-class verse honors manual labor, masculine tenderness, and the landscapes of the American West. Before turning to poetry, he spent years working in commercial fishing, telecom installation, and other trades. His collections include Overtime (Eastern Washington University Press, 2001), Fortune (Eastern Washington University Press, 2007), Blue Rust (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012), and Overtime: Selected Poems (Carnegie Mellon, 2020). His work extends the tradition of Philip Levine with sensory precision and emotional directness. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"shine","title":"Shine","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems that arise from the currents of felt experience.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Joseph Millar's lyrical poems explore work, love, filial connection, life, and death. This is Millar's sixth collection, and it reaches a deeper, more sonic level than his usual narrative voice. A collection of half songs rendered in a hardscrabble lyricism, they are propelled by their shifting, irregular rhymes, half rhymes, and off rhymes. The poems' subjects grow from moments of daily life and their deeper obsessions--love, work, death, desire--and the making of art itself. Touched with more humor than earlier work, and with an unpredictable timing that seems to listen to itself as it travels down the page, the poems are part wonder and part reflection, carried along by their music.","brand":"Joseph Millar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793338695722,"sku":"9780887487033","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/shine-9756907.jpg?v=1762150357"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/joseph-millar.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}