Cairn - Miller, Cameron

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Résumé :
Readers looking for an engaging and spiritual journey will find comfort in CAIRN: POEMS AND ESSAYS. After decades of reading and ogling poetry, Miller made room among the novels, newspaper columns, and preaching to hone poems amidst the wild beauty of northernmost Vermont and the pastoral beauty of the Finger Lakes. The elements of nature are this poet's paint but he also paddles a gondola through the dark channels of the mind while lighting the way. Both poems and essays work on the reader from two directions, the brain down and the ground up. Poems like I want to be Mary Oliver seem whimsical at first but quickly instigate a new look at an old subject. The words themselves are cairns guiding readers on an inward journey to a deeper plane of understanding our relationships with everything, seen and unseen. Many will find the poems worthy of weddings, funerals, and letters to dear friends. Poems that immediately jump into deep water like Depression, offer a sense of liberation via blunt and unvarnished authenticity. Cairn speaks from these two hemispheres of the human experience in a way that aids those who start out with discomfort around poetry. It quickly demonstrates that poetry need not be a strange or inaccessible medium after all. Intertwined with the poems are essays that echo back to the poems in images of nature, human nature, and the sacred....

Biographie:
Cameron Miller has been thinking and writing about the ordinary sacred hiding in plain sight for decades, first as an Episcopal preacher in trade journals, magazines, and websites, and then professionally as a writer and poet. Last Will & Testament, A Preacher's Memoir in Poetry and Prose. will be released this December (2024) by Unsolicited Press. In addition to his first collection of poems and essays, Cairn (Unsolicited Press, 2020), he has two novels in publication: Steam Room Diaries (DAOwen Press, Canada, 2015) and Thoughtwall Caf?: Espresso in the Third Season of Life (Unsolicited Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in print anthologies from Poetry Quarterly, The Poet's Quest for God (UK), Crossroads, Inwood Indiana Press, and Le Mot Juste. Cameron lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York where he writes a weekly column for the Finger Lakes Times as well as publishes on his website: www.subversivepreacher.org....

Sommaire:
Cameron Miller has been thinking and writing about the ordinary sacred hiding in plain sight for decades, first as an Episcopal preacher in trade journals, magazines, and websites, and then professionally as a writer and poet. Last Will & Testament, A Preacher's Memoir in Poetry and Prose. will be released this December (2024) by Unsolicited Press. In addition to his first collection of poems and essays, Cairn (Unsolicited Press, 2020), he has two novels in publication: Steam Room Diaries (DAOwen Press, Canada, 2015) and Thoughtwall Caf?: Espresso in the Third Season of Life (Unsolicited Press, 2018). His poems have appeared in print anthologies from Poetry Quarterly, The Poet's Quest for God (UK), Crossroads, Inwood Indiana Press, and Le Mot Juste. Cameron lives in the Finger Lakes region of New York where he writes a weekly column for the Finger Lakes Times as well as publishes on his website: www.subversivepreacher.org....