Warmer Than Yesterday - Miller, Patricia Cleary
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"The voices in Patricia Cleary Miller's Warmer Than Yesterday: New and Selected Poems struggle with four of life's greatest confusions: home, war, death, and love. With humor, pathos, and ambiguity-after all, today is warmer than yesterday-they savor their experiences even if they never seem to find out all the answers as they search in Kansas City and all over the world. This book highlights new poems as well as work from her numerous books spanning over thirty years"--

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"The voices in Patricia Cleary Miller's Warmer Than Yesterday: New and Selected Poems struggle with four of life's greatest confusions: home, war, death, and love. With humor, pathos, and ambiguity-after all, today is warmer than yesterday-they savor their experiences even if they never seem to find out all the answers as they search in Kansas City and all over the world. This book highlights new poems as well as work from her numerous books spanning over thirty years"--
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Autorenporträt
Patricia Cleary Miller is a professor emerita of English at Rockhurst University, where she founded and edited the Rockhurst Review. At Rockhurst, she served variously on the executive committee of the faculty general assembly and as chair of the Department of English and of the Humanities Division. Her first collection of poetry, Starting a Swan Dive, won Rockhurst's Daniel E. Brenner Award for Scholarly Achievement. Her collection Can You Smell the Rain? won the James McKenna Award from the Gerard Manley Hopkins Society and International Festival; the poem "Mother Won't Buy Polypropylene" won a Pushcart Prize. Her nonfiction Westport: Missouri's Port of Many Returns celebrated the sesquicentennial of the town that would become Kansas City. Her chapbook Dresden gave a child's actual view of the Allied bombing. Her secondary school was the French Convent of Notre Dame de Sion. She holds degrees from Radcliffe College, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the University of Kansas. She held a postdoctoral fellowship in poetry at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute. Her collections The Maori Never Age and its second edition Crimson Lights include poems celebrating her eight years as poet laureate of Harvard University's alumni association. She is a founding board member of The Writer's Place; she served as president and won its Muse Award.