Article: A Palace of Pearls.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

A Palace of Pearls by Jane Miller. Copper Canyon Press, 96 pp., $15.00 (paper). In Miller's book-length sequence, the belief that "the imagination repairs" vies with the certainty that "the poem restores nothing," and if at one moment the poet lacerates herself questioning her poem's value, at another she likens her eardrum to an "emergency room." The self-consciousness, the probing, is often compelling, but can feel like a form of self-objectification; as she puts it, "the poem itself has become prohibitive." Written in thirty-four sections and a coda formed from each section's last line, A Palace of Pearls is anchored by the Alhambra, which nicely encompasses both the ...

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