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Beyond the Road’s Edge by Susan Cummins Miller

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The poems in Beyond the Road’s Edge are a geopoetic journey into the mystery, magic, and lessons drawn from the natural world of the American West, the terrain of the author’s personal and professional odyssey. From crossing over the San Andreas Fault Zone to collecting Miocene mammals in the Mojave Desert and exploring the Great Unconformity in the Grand Canyon, the sensory images transport the reader beyond the observable and grounded to reveal a fresh landscape where Science, Art and wonder coalesce and suggest the question: Given Time, what’s next? #poetry #nature #geology #Time #American West 
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Tucson writer Susan Cummins Miller, a former field geologist and college instructor, is the award-winning author of the poetry collections Making Silent Stones Sing and Deciphering the Desert, and seven novels: My Bonney Lies Under, Death Assemblage, Detachment Fault, Quarry, Hoodoo, Fracture, and Chasm. She also compiled and edited the anthology A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922. Her poems, short fiction and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies. http://www.susancumminsmiller.com
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The test of fine poetry: you read it, you enter the silence…the fragility and strength of minute cells where Life is hidden, you go back to read it again. Susan Cummins Miller brings poetry to stone. She persuades that each layer of earth beneath our boots is an unknown world awaiting attention. With her as my eyes, I have never before so wanted to walk the earth. Miller writes with Buddhist understanding that the whole is a 3D, all-encompassing Mobius strip where inside and outside, body/spirit, beginning/ending…living and dying are one and the same indistinguishable, indestructible, infinite energy. She claims she does not speak the language of nature, but I promise you, she does.
–Katie Sarah Zale, author of The Weight of a Leaf: Poems; coeditor of Winter in America (Again)
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Susan Cummins Miller’s poems are about movement and change within the processes of nature as they reflect human experience. As a geologist and paleontologist, what Miller brings us is a breathtaking discovery of this wisdom.The poet receives revelations throughout, such as in “Time Out of Mind,” in which she reflects on “memories of earlier transverses” as she is “grateful for these brief / soul-stealing minutes of peace.” In this volume, Miller gives us the gift of awareness of the moment we’re in, despite “the emptiness—the haunting, / lingering sense you’ve lost the meaning” despite “the silence and desolation / of spinning galaxies, the fragility and strength / of minute cells where Life / is hidden.” And finally, “Sit with them. Listen / to the mysteries.”–Nancy Owen Nelson, author of Letters to Jimbo: Poems (Kelsay Books, 2026)

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