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Deciphering the Desert: a book of poems
by Susan Cummins Miller
$19.99, Full-length, paper
978-1-64662-979-4
2023
The fifty-three poems in Deciphering the Desert capture a geoscientist’s contemplation of, discoveries in, and wisdom gained from the changing terrain of her life and work. These poems arise from the mysteries that surround us in the intersections of landscape, science, history, prehistory, and time. They excavate what lies behind, beneath, and beyond surface observations and experiences—the extraordinary in the commonplace—and they reveal the healing power and renewal to be found in the desert West.
Tucson writer Susan Cummins Miller, a former field geologist and college instructor, is the author of the novels Death Assemblage, Detachment Fault, Quarry, Hoodoo, Fracture, and Chasm. She compiled and edited the anthology A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922, and her award-winning poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Finishing Line Press recently released her chapbook of poems, Making Silent Stones Sing.
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