CAIRN: POETRY AND ESSAYS
Readers looking for an engaging and spiritual journey will find comfort in Cameron Miller's words in his latest book 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.
The words themselves are cairns guiding readers on an inward journey. 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. 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.
Poetry and Essay
ISBN: 978-1-950730-46-9
Publication Date: July 22, 2020
Readers looking for an engaging and spiritual journey will find comfort in Cameron Miller's words in his latest book 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.
The words themselves are cairns guiding readers on an inward journey. 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. 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.
Poetry and Essay
ISBN: 978-1-950730-46-9
Publication Date: July 22, 2020
Readers looking for an engaging and spiritual journey will find comfort in Cameron Miller's words in his latest book 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.
The words themselves are cairns guiding readers on an inward journey. 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. 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.
Poetry and Essay
ISBN: 978-1-950730-46-9
Publication Date: July 22, 2020
About CAMERON MILLER
Cameron Miller is a writer and preacher exploring the sacred hiding in plain sight. He writes fiction, poetry, and a weekly newspaper column for the Finger Lakes Times (NY). Miller's website (www.subversivepreacher.org) includes some of his work and is devoted to navigating the ordinary sacred as a spiritual practice. He has two novels in print: Steam Room Diaries (DAOwen Press, Canada, 2015); and Thoughtwall Café Espresso in the Third Season of Life(Unsolicited Press, 2018). As an emerging poet with single poems published in print anthologies - Poetry Quarterly(Summer 2015); The Poet's Quest for God(Eyewear Press, UK, 2016); Crossroads(2016); and Inwood Indiana Press(2016), as well as online at Silver Birch Press(January and February 2016) - "Cairn, Marking the Trace" is his first published collection.
