Sign-In
Cart
Basilica
Paperback
Publisher Price: $25.00
ISBN13: 9781733232661
Publisher: George Miller
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.19 Width: 11.00 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Two noted Maryland authors teamed up to produce Basilica, an intense collection of photography and poetry. George Miller and Donald Shomette view their subjects through a single lens. Theirs is a true collaboration, a process in which images and words intermingle and grow.
Basilica begins with the Baltimore Basilica as a sanctuary from the turbulent events of the 1960s. A desperate mother brings her shell-shocked son to the Sunday service hoping he might find peace after the trauma of Vietnam. We're here, we're safe, no bombs, no guns, you're home.
Fifty-six poems and stories spread over seven sections lead the reader through decades along Maryland's western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.
- SANDHILL CRANES - The cranes descend, wings feathers brake, feet forward, one with the marsh, they land, dance, forage.
- BALANCE BEAM - Know it, become it, feel the padded suede beneath your naked feet, the spring within the wood, the space above the beam.
- FLAT BOTTOMS, GOD BLESS'EM - Master of tides snaking curlicue channels into the marsh, slithering back to the broad water.
- VIETNAM - The wind blows warm from the delta at dawn, hot from the hill country at noon, sleep, dawn, direction fail me, time is forever noon and hot.
- A PALM BEACH BLESSING - May the star in the east guide your petroleum engineers to oil deposits under the desert.
- ON READING JUNG'S SEVEN SERMONS TO THE DEAD - Wings of the white bird hover over my hydrangea, incessant figure eights along serpentine garden paths strobe, stroke, beat.
Also from
Miller, George K.
Also in
General Poetry
Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Pitavy, Francois
Alighieri, Dante
Paperback
Sounding the Seasons Enlarged Edition: One Hundred and Ten Sonnets for the Christian Year
Guite, Malcolm
Paperback
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Lao Tzu
Paperback
They Bloom Because of You: Poems on the Infinite Love, Growth, and Magic of Motherhood
Urlichs, Jessica
Paperback
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
This Is the Main Event: Discovering the Life You Long for in the Life You Have
Smith, Joshua Luke
Hardcover