Something Worth Diving For by Linda Sonia Miller

$14.00

 

In Something Worth Diving For Linda Sonia Miller pulls a pickerel from a cold lake and finds a heart, sees children who “hang like damp clothes/from sofa arms” and discovers that one of the “small gifts” from the world that continually astonishes her is poetry itself. Her love poems to infancy, childhood, and maturity expand with this freedom and surprise.

I welcome the debut of this lively metaphorist who meditates on time in such deft quick lines.”

–Molly Peacock, Poet (author of The Paper Garden and 6 books of poetry, including The Second Blush and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems)

Rating: *****  [5 of 5 Stars!]

 

Linda Sonia Miller combines inner and outer landscapes with keen observation and surprising metaphors in her brilliant collection Something Worth Diving For.  Miller’s poetry is beautiful and profound.

Leah Maines, author of Beyond the River, winner of the Kentucky Writers’ Coalition Chapbook Competition (KWC Press)

 

 

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Something Worth Diving For

by Linda Sonia Miller

$14, paper

Linda Sonia Miller has enjoyed a lifelong relationship with poetry. It permeates the works in this collection, as evidenced below in “Poetry.”  To develop her skills for writing her own poetry, Linda studied with such eminent poets as Grace Schulman, Molly Peacock, Linda Pastan and Carolyn Forche.  The love of reading and writing poetry also strongly influenced her professional life, a rewarding career as a teacher of literature and creative writing. Her students range from kindergarten to college to senior citizens and incarcerated youth. As a teacher of teachers, she has presented on effective approaches to student writing at state and national conferences and has served as a Connecticut Writing Project Consultant and an N.E.H. Fellow and Advisor. While Writing Coordinator K-12 of the Pelham Public Schools in Westchester County, NY, she authored the district’s Writing Curriculum. She has led writing workshops in NY and CT and has been instrumental in the development of two Festivals of Writers and numerous other literary events in her current hometown, Rensselaerville, NY.

Her work has appeared in such journals as: Aries, South Boston Literary Review, and The New York Times. 



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