English
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Skinny Eighth Avenue
Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press
East Rockaway, NY
2005, 88 pages
Skinny Eight Avenue is a surreal and extraordinarily
witty intrusion into the flow of postmodern life, altering its
course and in doing so disclosing the assumptions of its power.
These poems are unique in their insouciant and insightful analyses
of life in an age that is moving along too swiftly for everyone’s
good. With intelligence and humor, Stephen Paul Miller presents the
world as at once full of play and utterly serious, in this
memorable collection punctuated by whimsical drawings by his son,
Noah.
“Miller makes cultural comparisons that are equal parts genius
and madness.”
— San Francisco Chronicle, David Bowman