Jane Miller

Miller has been a mentor to hundreds of poets through her years as a teacher at University of Arizona. The Boston Book Review compares Jane Miller’s “careening, associative” verse to the paintings of Jackson Pollock and Jasper Johns. All are inventive, energetic, and risky. Miller was originally a painter. She sees the processes of painting and writing as much the same, but she found herself unable to paint and write poetry at the same time, so she abandoned painting in favor of writing. W.S....

– Copper Canyon has been invested in Jane Miller's work for nearly 20 years, and this is the fifth book we've published – In our «Weird Review Quotes» file, Jane has a doozy: «Reading Jane Miller's poetry is like channel-surfing on acid.» – Palace of Pearls was written in a fever-pitch of inspiration, over one summer–"the writing came fast, everyday," she says. What she doesn't say is that it's brilliant. – she got her MFA from Iowa and has taught at the...

• 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....