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Late Inscriptions

Late Inscriptions

Miller, David

Paperback

General Poetry

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 5, 2026

ISBN10: 1916590225
ISBN13: 9781916590229
Publisher: Knives Forks and Spoons
Published: Oct 5 2026
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Late Inscriptions continues David Miller's elegiac project of recent years: themes of loss pared down to deceptive simplicity; snatches of memory balanced against paradox. The too-overlooked American poet Robert Lax shadows these poems. Miller shares Lax's ambition to 'do it with the simplest elements', shares his influences from abstract art (Miller is himself an accomplished abstract painter), and his short, sometimes single-word line. In these poems pathos, in the ancient Greek sense of 'suffering' or 'what befalls one', is doubled in the address to both reader and lost love. This is not some universalised sentiment: it is specific, and specific to us. No other contemporary poet does this so skilfully, or with such honesty.

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